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How about some mention of the documentary "Paper Clips?" You may have it elsewhere and I haven't looked enough. The documentary is based on the idea that the paper clip was used as a sign of resistence and was used by a middle school in Tennessee to give students a visual idea of how much six million items are. 99.230.206.126 ( talk) 15:05, 7 December 2008 (UTC)i never knew paper clips eat marshmallows for breakfast
Actually, the first patent went to Samuel B. Fay in 1867 in America. There were many types patented long before Vaaler's.
Why the are we looking up paperclips on Wiki :P
I did. I just found one at my computer and i thought: "let's see whom wikipedia credits as the inventor", I am from Norway and I've always heard that it is a Norwegian invention. 85.167.133.203 21:14, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, not quite true.
I looked it up because I'm making a giant paperclip in my Art BTEC course at school. This article is helping, and I never knew that wearing paperclips in WWII was a way of supporting the Jews. Futuremyst ( talk) 13:24, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
Why are we looking up Paper Clips on WP?? Because WP is where people go to find detailed info such as a paperclip size chart. Just how big is a #1 paperclip anyway?? Why do I find that the sizes decrease from #1 to #2 to #3, but then jump to bigger for a #4??? These are things that WP editors research and share with the world. I'm disappointed to find that the info I need isn't here...yet. I may have to go do the research myself and update the article. WesT ( talk) 19:44, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
Regarding the image showing the paper clip next to a tape rule: the units of the rule should be indicated.
I've been told that it is common to use "aa" in stead of "å" when you do not have a keyboard with a set key for that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.160.245.172 ( talk) 10:15, 21 February 2007 (UTC).
Can anybody figure how many paperclips are produced worldwide in any given year?
This link qoutes 20 billion produced each year. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Monkdom ( talk • contribs) 12:59, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
yes! there is about 200,000,000,000 world wide and about 300,000,000,000 ever made —Preceding unsigned comment added by Paperclip 108 ( talk • contribs) 22:29, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there a graveyard of paper clips somewhere? Somebody please explain!
-- juhtolv ( talk) 17:00, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi guys. I found a little trace of NPOV (highly innofensive and mostly unintentional) in this article probably by the origin of the author. Could anyone do some simple refrasing because the article sort of sound like an advertisement for the (now defunct) Gem company. Hope is possible.-- 201.116.149.85 ( talk) 22:29, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
I bonk up against this every time I go to order office supplies and I'm surprised it's still not answered here. In a store it would be obvious, but without a box to compare to... What's the difference between No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3? Is Jumbo above and beyond all of these, or what? --19:16, 17 July 2009 (UTC)~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.212.34.122 ( talk)
And I heard it has been invented by Josef Hofmann.
Not sure when it was patented? Does anyone know?
The sentence "A paper clip could be installed in a Commodore 1541 disk-drive as a flexible head-stop" pops up at many places on the net, but I have trouble finding more details about this. It would be great to either find a good reference for this claim, or to dismiss it as an urban myth. Joreberg ( talk) 19:19, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
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When were paper clips made to be like today's design? If we have a picture of an ad for it in Jan 1893 that looks almost exactly like the Gem design mentioned, they why does the article also say "Up until 1899, paper clips aren't reminiscent of what they look like today". I feel like those 2 points of data contradict each other. TheWheelerDealer ( talk) 22:01, 12 February 2023 (UTC)