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= Samuel Slocum =

**Meet the Inventor**

Samuel Slocum was born on March 4, 1792 to Peleg Slocum and Ann Dyer Slocum in Pughkeepsie, New York, where he would spend his childhood.He was the 4th of 13 children. He worked as a carpenter before he decided to move to London and become a pin maker. Before he patented the design of his 'stapler' he got a patent for a machine that created pins with solid heads. He married Susan Stanton Slocum and had two children, Samuel Dyer Slocum and Mary Slocum. After he patented his 'stapler' design he moved back to New York to find a partner to start a pin making business with. He died January 26, 1861.

** The Invention ** Although King Louis had a personal one made for himself before, the stapler that was used by the public was made in the 18th century by Samuel Slocum. It did not use a staple as we know it today, instead it used pins that were able to push through a few sheets of paper at a time. The machine could only hold one pin at a time so if you wanted to do a bunch of different stacks you would have to put a new pin in each time.

** Additional Information ** __ //Education, Hobbies, & Jobs:// __ He attended school at Saint Bonaventure University and the Mansfield University of Pennsylvania.

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= Bibliography =


 * Dalton Miles: **

Acco Brand. "The Day the Stapler Was Invented." //Acco Europe - News - The Day the Stapler Was Invented//. Acco Europe, 30 Sept. 2010. Web. 7 Oct. 2011. . This source is from a company that makes office supplies so they are writing about their area of expertise. This information is most likely accurate because the information that was also on other sources was the same on this source. This source has a lot of information about the invention itself. It didn't talk about the inventor very much.

"Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials." //Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records//. 20 May 2011. Web. 7 Oct. 2011. . This information is on a headstone so the information is very old but it is accurate. This website is used to find information on people and where they are buried. The website helped with finding relatives and dates for the inventor. I used this site because it would have accurate information about birth and death dates as well as parents and children. The death date is not accurate though. There is a discrepancy on the death date of the inventor. Most sources disagree with the death date on this site.

"Stapler Exchange." //OoCities - Geocities Archive / Geocities Mirror//. Web. 7 Oct. 2011. . This information is probably accurate because the information matches the other sources that I found. This website had a lot of information about the background of the inventor. It had more information on the background of any other sources that I found. I used this site because it had information that other sources didn't have like, the inventor was a carpenter before he started to make his invention. It also helped to check the validity of my information from other sites

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"Samuel Slocum." //Samuel Slocum//. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2011. . On this website it shows his occupation, date of birth, why he ever went to London in the first place (where he founded the stapler). This is three paragraphs on the background story of the stapler. This information is very accurate because this information was reflected in other sources.
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"Samuel Slocum Biography, Samuel Slocum Bio." //Explore Profiles and Express your Opinions on People, Places, Trends and Events//. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2011. []. On this website it is a short biography of Samuel Slocum, including the basics of his invention, how the stapler got started and what made it the stapler that we know today. This website also includes his date of birth and date of death. This information is new but very accurate because there are a lot of reliable sources they used.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">"facts about Samuel Slocum - True Knowledge." //True Knowledge - the internet answer engine//. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2011. []. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">On this website I was able to find name, date of birth, age at death, nationality, and a lot of more interesting facts. This has a lot of things all about Samuel Slocum. Almost anything basic you want to know about him would be on this website. This website is very accurate because the person who invented this had the basic information and it states the same information on any other website.

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