Cook, Richard A. (1997). "A History of the Glen Echo Chautauqua". Glen Echo, Maryland & Cabin John Bridge . Retrieved 13 August 2022. Creator: Baltzley, Edwin". Historical Society of Washington, D.C. Retrieved 12 August 2022– via PastPerfect Online. In 1909, the method of binding sheets of paper together was to punch holes in them and tie them together with string or sew them, making it tedious to remove a single sheet of paper.

Louis E. Baltzley, born circa 1885, [12] by February 1930, [13] had moved [12] to Glen Ridge, New Jersey married, [14] and had two daughters, [15] one marrying in 1940. The binder clip was invented, and patented [4] in 1910 by Washington, D.C. area resident Louis E. Baltzley, grandson of Elias Howe, [5] to help his father, born in 1848, [6] [7] twin to Edward Baltzley and son of Susan (née Howe) and David C. Baltzley, Edwin Baltzley, developers of Glen Echo Park and Glen Echo, Maryland, [8] a writer, [9] and inventor, [10] with thirteen patents, [5] hold his manuscripts together more easily. While similar-purposed designs have since been patented five times, [5] the most produced version remains the U.S. Patent 1,139,627. The object is such a common sight in offices that, in late 2020, when restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic were lowered and people started returning to their offices, some missed and enjoyed the feeling of using a binder clip, after months without doing so. [2] At around the same time, healthcare workers in at least one medical center used extra large binder clips as a cheap way to secure a plastic curtain between workers and patients infected with the airborne virus. [3] History [ edit ] Cook, Richard A. (1997). "Glen Echo". Glen Echo, Maryland & Cabin John Bridge . Retrieved 13 August 2022.

Assorted 19mm Foldback Clips (Pack of 10)

a b c d Hales, Linda (20 May 2006). "A Big Clip Job? Think Washington". The Washington Post . Retrieved 2 January 2016. Louis E. Baltzley, with more than thirty other patents, [11] initially produced this invention through the L.E.B. Manufacturing Company. [5] These earliest binder clips are stamped "L.E.B." on one side of the sheet steel. Manufacturing rights were later licensed to other companies. Chen, Te-Ping (7 December 2020). "Some Office Workers Return and Find Joy in Their Cubicles: 'Ooh, a Binder Clip!' ". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660 . Retrieved 29 January 2022. In 1966, test pilot Joseph F. Cotton used the shiny metal portion of such a clip to short-circuit an electrical circuit panel to force the landing gear of the XB-70 bomber on a flight. [ citation needed] Characteristics and methods of use [ edit ] The handles can be folded down once the clip has been attached, and can also be removed for a semi-permanent binding. An assortment of binder clips, with an AA battery for scale

Cook, Richard A. (1997). "The Town of Glen Echo, Maryland". Glen Echo, Maryland & Cabin John Bridge . Retrieved 13 August 2022.