But by that time, a few other paper-clip patents were on the books. In 1900 Cornelius Brosnan of Springfield, Mass., patented a similar device called the Konaclip. A year earlier a patent had been ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS >> Norwegians like to claim that it was one of their own who invented the paper clip with a local patent in 1899. Later, during World War II, the citizens of Norway used the clip as a ...