Samuel Slocum, was an American inventor from Poughkeepsie, New York. While in England, he invented a machine for the production of wrought iron nails. A short time later he moved back to the United States, and formed a pin manufacturing company, Slocum and Jillson, which invented a "Machine for Sticking Pins into Paper", which is often believed to be the first stapler. In fact, this patent from September 30 1841, Patent #2275, is for a device used for packaging pins.

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  • Samuel Slocum, was an American inventor from Poughkeepsie, New York. While in England, he invented a machine for the production of wrought iron nails. A short time later he moved back to the United States, and formed a pin manufacturing company, Slocum and Jillson, which invented a "Machine for Sticking Pins into Paper", which is often believed to be the first stapler. In fact, this patent from September 30 1841, Patent #2275, is for a device used for packaging pins.
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  • Samuel Slocum, was an American inventor from Poughkeepsie, New York. While in England, he invented a machine for the production of wrought iron nails. A short time later he moved back to the United States, and formed a pin manufacturing company, Slocum and Jillson, which invented a "Machine for Sticking Pins into Paper", which is often believed to be the first stapler. In fact, this patent from September 30 1841, Patent #2275, is for a device used for packaging pins.
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  • Samuel Slocum
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