Machine for Sticking Pins into Paper in 1841?

Question

1. What is the impact of the society about the Machine for Sticking Pins into Paper in 1841.

2. What is the scientific principle of Machine for Sticking Pins into Paper in 1841.

3. what is the advantages and disadvantages of the Machine for Sticking Pins into Paper in 1841.

Answer 1

It is often wrongly believed to be the first stapler, which it is not, though it did inspire it.

In 1841, a machine "for sticking pins into paper" was patented by Samuel Slocum of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (U.S. No. 2275). A sliding hopper deposited a number of pins in grooves in a plate, from where a row of wires pushed them into a folded paper. The operation was activated by a foot treadle. He had previously invented (1838), but not patented, a machine to manufacture pins with a solid head. He formed a company to make what became known as "Poughkeepsie pins" (1839). One man tending two such machines could produce 100,000 pins in 11 hours. Slocum's pin was the first with a solid head to be made in the U.S., though John Ireland Howe had made the first practical pin-making machine (patented 22 Jun 1832, No. 2013

If you search on his name, you might get more info.