Posts Tagged ‘Interesting’

  Take a look around your office desk. No doubt you’ll see the office desk basics: a phone, a keyboard, pens and a stapler. A stapler is, pardon the pun, a staple at most offices. Most offices have variations of the same standard stapler, so it’s hard to believe that there are actually some very…

Paper, as we know it today, began as a closely guarded secret in China. What first comes to mind when talking about it’s history, is the ancient Egyptian writing material called papyrus. But the “true paper” we use today, thin sheets made from softened, individual fibers, began in China. The inventor of this “true paper”…

The first step to purchasing an item at a store is almost always the same way. We take the item to the check-out counter and, in most cases, the item’s barcode is scanned. It’s such an everyday occurrence, we don’t think twice about the technology behind barcodes and how they came to be. The invention…