Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sure, paper clips end up floating around junk drawers and clutter desk tops, but they're good for more than just organizing papers ...

Paper clip chains are obviously having a moment. Two of my colleagues recently reported on them: Emili Vesilind shared the style as a must-stock in the recommendation of Royal Chain, a chain authority ...

Have you ever given much thought to the evolution of the paper clip and other methods of attaching papers together? Yeah, me neither. But let’s think about it now… A patent for the first bent wire ...

Do you feel disorganized? Like your life just isn't coming together the way you always planned? Well in 1867, a man named Samuel Faye patented a little invention that might be just what you need. It's ...

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People have fastened sheets of paper together more or less permanently ever since the Chinese invented the stuff in the first or second century A.D. Yet according to the Early Office Museum, the first ...

With a spare $185 laying around and a serious lack of creativity, anyone can waltz into Office Depot and drop some cash on 13,300 paper clips. For anyone who doesn’t want to saunter into work and make ...

James Ward has an unusual attachment to paper clips. And when he sees one, he sees "a piece of art, but it's also a piece of useful art." And like any serious art appreciator, he is also a collector.