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Walter Hunt, an American mechanic owned someone $15. he sat at his desk toying with a brass wire not knowing how he would clear his debt. He coiled the wire around for almost three hours. When he looked down at what he had done, it occurred to him that he had actually invented something of utility. He had used a pin before, but all the pins would prick. Here was one which could be used on clothes safety. He aptly called this ‘dress pin’ what we all now call the safety pin. In 1849 he patented his new invention and sold off the patent for $400 and paid his friend the $15 back. Little did he know at that time that not only would this tiny earn someone millions of dollars but also its utility would last for centuries to come.

Walter Hunt’s other inventions included: a forerunner of the Winchester repeating rifle, a successful flax spinner, knife sharpener, streetcar bell, hard-coal-burning stove, sweeping machinery etc. He is also well known for inventing a commercially unsuccessful sewing machine. All it look to create these devices were imagination and a little time.,