Hunt's brass "dress pin" has evolved into the commonplace safety pin we know today. Courtesy Haragayato __1849: __A New York inventor receives a patent for the spring safety pin. He invented it ...

Safety pins are everywhere—sewing kits, first-aid boxes, diaper bags—and chances are, you have a few lurking in a junk drawer ...

Hunt patented the safety pin, which he called a dress pin ... As Hunt wrote in the patent, “Another great advantage unknown in other plans is found in the perfect convenience of inserting ...

In 1849 US mechanic Walter Hunt (1796-1859) filed patent 6,281 for “a pin made ... it would have made guessing “safety pin” easier. While he has gone down in design history as a serial ...

Safety pins haven’t always been used to end racism and bigotry. Turns out they have quite a history! They were invented in 1849 by a poor, sad American named Walter Hunt, who needed to pay off a ...

Walter Hunt (1785-1859), a 19th century engineer and machinist, was only a bit player in the history of the sewing machine but he was a prolific “Yankee mechanical genius” who had a penchant ...

Safety pin is literally a lifesaver for most women. It can be used for several things, from fixing clothes to making jewellery, and the list goes on. We were all stuck in some other kind of ...