Samuel Slocum

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Samuel Slocum (March 4, 1792 - January 26, 1861), 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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• Entry about the "History of the Stapler Site also contains a short biography about Samuel Slocum.
• Entry about the "Machine for Sticking Pins into Paper Site also contains a short biography about Samuel Slocum.
• History of the stapler
• United States Patent and Trademark Office drawing of Patent 2275

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