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October 12, 1849.—The ordinary wire safety-pin was patented by Charles Rowley, button manufacturer, of Birmingham, on Oct. 12, 1849. Though pins of this kind were apparently not known at that time in the pin-making industry, there was little novelty in the invention, for similar pins were in common use in Roman and earlier times. The earliest known is one in the British Museum belonging to the Mycenean period, C. 1000 B.c., which is of almost identical construction.
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Calendar of Patent Records. Nature 124, 602 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124602a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/124602a0