History of The Discovery of A Pin

Thanks to an inventor Walter Hunt Winchester, United States. invention that was created around the year 1849, against the background by the pressure to pay 15 dollars to his debt.

Walter Hunt was born July 29, 1796, in Martinsburg, New York. He was the youngest child of the couple Sherman and Rachel Hunt. Since small, Hunt lived in the city of his birth. He got his early education in a small school with one classroom. In 1817, Hunt graduated from college in Masonry. After graduation he married Polly Loucks and had 4 children.
Hunt to develop a career in the field of intellectual textile business which at that time became the main livelihood Lowville town, a small town in Lewis Country, New York. He was with his family textile business building fabric and cotton wool.
Together with his brother Hiram Hunt, he pioneered in the field of services of spinning wool. However, the business did not last due to substantial losses.
Although busy with his work, Hunt is also smart in the field of mechanics is still time to create some useful items for the public interest, among them the spinning tool, knife grinder, a bell for street cars, coal-burning stove, artificial stone, street cleaning machines , an ice scraper and a letter making machine. However, these findings do not help to improve the economics of the family.
Even Hunt who prefer to marry young, have struggled to pay off his debt to as much as 15 dollars. Of stress and anxiety, he thought to create something that would help him pay off his debt.
At one point, Walter Hunt was twisted pieces of cable to create a pin. At that time the pin is used as a tool for embedding fabric without buttons. In fact, safety is usually used to link pants with tops that are used as a representation of young workers wear time.
In order not to be imitated by others, Hunt patented the safety pin creations of April 10, 1849. Later in life, he sold the patent rights at a price of 400 dollars. Without realizing that he was actually able to get billions of dollars from the results of his findings.
Before invented by Walter Hunt, the actual pin has been known since the 14th century BC in Micenae. Traditional pin was called fibulae pin whose function is similar to what we use today.

But the end is not closed so often injure the wearer and does not have a so can not hold tightly. However, the usefulness of the new pin may yield results after Walter Hunt managed to find a pin that is simpler and simpler and safer to use.
In the development of safety pins used by the lifestyle of the punk subculture or community. This community uses a pin as one of the popular style since the mid-1970s in the United Kingdom.
Gaya was declared first emerged thanks to the creation of Richard Hell and the increasingly popular because his picture was published in the magazine punk community. Pin design has also been developed and an assortment of colorful and often ditambahin trinkets to decorate clothes. In fact, safety is also used as a prize award with gold.



Walter Hunt died on June 8, 1859 due to illness Pneumia. His body was buried in Green-Wood cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. Until now the country uncle sam remember him as a man of many new innovations in the field of the invention.
Despite having created many inventions, until his death Hunt never enjoyed the profits from his creations.