“These things are so great and have so many uses in so many areas that I don’t even have to market them. Customers just find me,” says Larry Schwartz, who’s been in the safety-pin business for more ...

On April 10, 1849, a modest mechanic and independent inventor from New York named Walter Hunt quietly made history. He patented a small metal object with a spring, calling it a ‘dress pin’. That ...

Got a safety pin? Been seeing them everywhere and not entirely sure what they mean? The safety pin phenomenon hit Britain first; in the wake of the Brexit vote in June 2016, in which Britain voted to ...