• Solving a Pointy Problem

  • May 6 2025
  • Length: 6 mins
  • Podcast

Solving a Pointy Problem

  • Summary

  • What if one of the world’s most useful inventions was born not in a lab, but in a cluttered workshop — all because a man needed to pay a fifteen-dollar debt?
    Discover how a twist of wire, a flash of genius, and a forgotten inventor named Walter Hunt changed everyday life forever.
    The story behind the safety pin is anything but ordinary…

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