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How did the pins come about?

If we remember how many things are held together with pins, one can only marvel at how a person once managed to do without them. Pins of one form or another, from one material or another, have been used by man since ancient times.

The most ancient type of pin was, apparently, plant thorns. It is no coincidence that in some languages the word "pin" comes from the Latin word, which means "thorn" or "thorn". Then man began to make pins from the bones of animals or fish.

During the Neolithic, pins began to be made of bronze. It may seem surprising that the safety pin, the so-called English, or very similar to it, was probably in use in what is now Europe by the end of the Bronze Age, about 1000 BC. e. It was made of bronze, was very small and bent in such a way that its tip was fixed by the head. In ancient times, pins in Europe were used more for decoration than for fastening clothes.

In the form in which we know them, pins began to be produced around the end of the XNUMXth century. Then they were considered such a value that a set of pins was perceived as a wonderful New Year's gift. Sometimes, instead of pins, they gave an amount of money equal to their value. That's where the expression "pin money" came from in English.

The first pins of the modern type were made by the French, who imported them to England. Soon in England they began to make excellent pins. In 1775, the Continental Congress of the North American Colonies announced the establishment of a prize that would be awarded to the one who could make the first 300 pins, equal in quality to those brought from England!

Author: Likum A.

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