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The Invention Of Paper Money

Paper currency has become standard around the world, but that wasn’t always the case. Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein tells the story of how paper money came to be — and why it temporarily went away …
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Almanac: The invention of carbon paper

And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac, October 7, 1806, 212 years ago today … a date for an achievement that was anything but singular. For that was the day carbon paper was patented by the …
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The feminist story behind the invention of the brown paper bag

Behind the humble brown paper bag lies an unexpected case study of gender politics. The American inventor Margaret Knight left school at around the age of ten to work in a cotton mill in New England. After she witnessed a factory worker injured by a loose …
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How the invention of paper changed the world

The Gutenberg printing press – invented in the 1440s by Johannes Gutenberg, a goldsmith from Mainz in Germany – is widely considered to be one of humanity’s defining inventions. Gutenberg figured out how to make large quantities of durable metal type and …
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Apple files patent for its latest invention — a paper bag

Apple has filed a patent for a new invention. Yes, a paper bag. (Screenshot U.S. Patent & Trademark Office) WASHINGTON — It’s hard to imagine Apple fan boys and girls waiting in line for the tech and lifestyle giant’s new invention — a paper bag.
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