First Spiral Notebook (Sep, 1934)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Sep, 1934
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Sep, 1934
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USE COIL SPRING TO BIND NEW MEMORANDUM BOOK
Coil springs form flexible bindings for a new type of memorandum books. One edge of the covers and pages of the book are perforated with more than twenty holes and the coil spring is threaded through these holes to make a permanent binding, as shown above.
First spiral notebooks, article from 1934…
From the October, 1934 edition of Popular Science, this brief news article on the first spiral bound notebooks: Coil springs form flexible bindings for a new type of memorandum books. One edge of the covers and pages of the book are perforated with mor…
Trackback by Boing Boing — July 15, 2006 @ 10:51 am
Wow, spiral-bound notebooks are one of those things that I’d imagined had just “always” been around … a world without ‘em must have been a dark and sad place indeed what with all them flyaway notes. What a neat article to see; long live the spiral-bound!
Comment by ZS — July 15, 2006 @ 1:01 pm
[...] Here’s a 1934 Popular Science article on the first spiral bound notebook over at Modern Mechanix. [...]
Pingback by the cubbycave » Blog Archive » interesting articles for your reading list — July 15, 2006 @ 3:41 pm
This is probably just a flash in the pan, never catch on. 3-ring binders were good enough for our ancestors and they’re good enough for us!
Comment by Stannous — July 15, 2006 @ 8:26 pm
Actually, I don’t like spiral notebooks. The binding keeps snagging on the other stuff in my bag and once the coils get bent, the pages don’t turn smoothly. Give me stitched and glued notebooks anyday.
Comment by strangeknight — July 16, 2006 @ 12:21 am
[...] Modern Mechanix » First Spiral Notebook 1934, apparition du carnet à spirales. 1946, naissance de William Sheller (tags: fétichisme) [...]
Pingback by I like your style » Blog Archive » Sympatrucs 20060716 — July 16, 2006 @ 1:17 am
It’s really a helix.
Comment by jcpilman — July 17, 2006 @ 5:33 am
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Pingback by newsBreaks.net » First spiral notebooks, article from 1934 — August 3, 2006 @ 10:51 pm
Was invented by a man by the last name of Dubois in the state of New York near Poughkeepsie.
Comment by Dorwin Sayer — October 31, 2009 @ 4:16 am
Dorwin Sayer: Nonsense and other comments. I’d like to see the source for that assertion.
Try Walter Grumbacher of New York:
http://www.google.com/patents/.....grumbacher
http://www.google.com/patents/.....grumbacher
http://www.google.com/patents/.....grumbacher
http://www.google.com/patents/.....grumbacher
Comment by Firebrand38 — October 31, 2009 @ 9:51 am