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Happy Birthday Walter Hunt, inventor of the safety pin*.You would be 214 years old.
Do you understand what a big deal the safety pin is?! how did people even deal before that? I mean, this was before velcro (1891), zippers (1914), staplers (1877) disposable diapers (circa 1970?), really sticky chewing gum (1869, though reliable sources** claim people have chewed chewy indigestible things since the neolithic period), or superglue (or cyanoacrylate, 1942)?! HOW DID PEOPLE EVEN HOLD THINGS TOGETHER? ripped seams fallen hems snapped straps unruly diapers awkward zipper moments i can’t get over it. did they just carry around sewing kits, or use straight pins all the time and try to remember not to sit on them?
Walter Hunt’s other acheivements included the fountain pen, an early sewing machine that nobody every used, the firing cock repeating gun, and “artificial stone”… whatever that is.
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* Actually, reinventer. The Mycenaeans had it figured out in the 14th century BC.
** Wikipedia. All Wikipedia. I make no apologies, I’m saving up all my real researcher pizazz for the thesis.
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barefootgirlwithshoeson posted this
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It was midnight on the ocean,
Not a streetcar was in sight;
While the sun was shining brightly,
For it had rained all night.
‘Twas a summer’s day in Winter,
And the rain was snowing fast,
As the barefoot boy with shoes on
Stood sitting in the grass.
- anonymous
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