Who Invented the Stapler?

This sounds too much like homework. I found the answer in 5 seconds by searching. Try it sometime.

Why we people are not straight forward and reply with the name of the person.End of the story/ discussion. Rather than linger on and brag that u found in 5 minutes.

Why not we all share the knowledge u got in 5 minutes.

It will be appreciable if the question is replied with an answer and nothing beyond that.

Why do we waste other's time.

Good questions. Ask them of yourself.

Did not follow what u mean by this.

Please spell out the answer if u know.

Obviously, giving you the answer would have done no good anyway.

I didn't say I found the answer in 5 minutes. I said I found it in 5 SECONDS! Just as you could have done by looking for yourself!

It's nice that you'd rather use CR4 than Google, but we're just trying to educate you about an old adage.

"Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish and you have fed him for a lifetime."

Just Google the phrase "Who invented the stapler" and you'll find the answer.

Probably a Scotsman or maybe the Chinese...
But doubtless the Americans will make a movie claiming that they did .
Next years 'must see' Brad Pitt in 'The Clincher' lets hope it has Anne Hathaway too and maybe it'll be in 3D.
Del

Oh, right! And I suppose you blokes will have a BBC special with Sir David Jason explaining how we swiped it? And then losing the evidence on his desk?

Isn't it hard to see where you're going with your nose stuck up in the air like that?

1866 was when the USA patent was granted. His ancestors might have been from Scotland.

Invented in England, the staple would probably have been called the splinter.

Who is Anne Hathaway? Just curious.

Here...
Del

Nice try. The CCC will delete that in a heartbeat just like they did my RR picture! Maybe not, since she's not licking anything.

CCC=^{_{cleavage control cops.}}

I'm sure I read that she is from Arizona.

Oh, gimme a break. Every schoolboy knows that Joshua P. Staples was issued patent No. 183,706 in 1849 for just such a device.

mr Tornado.

Thanks for right on the money answer. Would have avoided unnecessary discussion

worthless in content.

Please do not get carried away with foolish answers and pictures.

It would be better for you to remain silent and thought a fool, than to make a statement and remove all doubt.

Thanks for very nice comments.

please refrain from personal comments.

no question is dumb ever never.

also, please do not discourage curiosity of the questioner.

if something offends you, then maintain silence as silence is gold in such cases.

All these years I've been wrong. I thought it was Roger Swingline.

Thanks for setting me straight Tornado.

I'm still working on getting sound to conduct electricity.

I thought it was Roebuck "Pops" Staples who developed it at ripe old age of er 16 ?

Are you sure ?

A well deserved GA from me. I hope the OP appreciates your efforts.

Do you think that I should tell him how long it took to find???

Do you think they would care?

Stop bragging. It took you less than 5 seconds.

I ain't sayin nothin! I know how sensitive some folks get about the whole time issue.

"Not so smart" is trying to look knowledgeable. Actually the answer is as worse as that of Tornado, but dangerous if someone should take it as more than a joke.

However the joke is carefully concocted. It does contain truth buried deep in its madness.

If u go to www.google.com/patents and check the patent numbers given u will find they all really do relate to staplers, but to staplers invented by George McGill. So is the jokester just clever? Or actually correct? Was McGIll the first? Or just another?

Who knows.

Consider the work needed to concoct a clever answer like that? Time waster big time.