Pen caps cause 100 deaths per year

Pen caps cause 100 deaths per year!!! specifically by people playing with them in their mouths and choking. The little hole at the top of the cap was actually inserted to prevent this, before which the death rate was even higher!

The Post-it note

The Post-It note was invented by accident when 3M employee Spencer Silver was attempting to create a super strong adhesive. Instead, he produced a super-weak adhesive which could be peeled off without leaving any residue, eventually leading to the Post-It in 1977 - 9 years later.

 

The Bread Eraser

Before the rubber eraser was the bread eraser. Crust-less bread was widely used as an eraser in the past, before an English engineer accidentally picked up a piece of rubber instead of breadcrumbs and discovered rubber’s erasing qualities.

History of Stationery

Originally the term stationery referred to all products sold by a stationer, whose name indicates that his book shop was on a fixed spot, usually near a university, and permanent, while medieval trading was mainly peddlers (including chapmen, who sold books) and others (such as farmers and craftsmen) at non-permanent markets such as fairs. It was a special term used between the 13th and 15th centuries in the manuscript culture. The Stationers' Company formerly held a monopoly over the publishing industry in England and was responsible for copyright regulations.

In its modern sense of (often personalized) writing materials, stationery has been an important part of good social etiquette, particularly since the Victorian era. Some usages of stationery, such as sending a manufactured reply card to a wedding invitation, has changed from offensive to appropriate.

The usage and marketing of stationery is a niche industry that is increasingly threatened by electronic media. As stationery is intrinsically linked to paper and the process of written, personalized communication, many techniques of stationery manufacture are employed, of varying desirability and expense. The most familiar of these techniques are letterpress printing, embossing, engraving, and thermographic printing (often confused with thermography). Flat printing and offset printing are regularly used, particularly for low cost or informal needs.

Stationery v Stationary

STATIONERY IS A COMMONLY MISSPELLED WORD. TO HELP YOU REMEMBER THE CORRECT SPELLING HERE'S A GREAT TECHNIQUE 

STATIONERY/STATIONARY –                                   

Stationery is writing materials/office supplies. Stationary is remaining still. 

So just   remember “E is for Envelope”, so it’s STATIONERY and you’re away!

Stationery

Office supplies are all the supplies regularly used in offices by businesses and other organizations. It includes small, expendable, daily use items such as paper clips, post-it notes, and staples, small machines such as hole punches, binders, staplers and laminators, writing utensils and paper, but also encompasses higher-cost equipment like computers, printers, fax machines, photocopiers and cash registers, as well as office furniture such as chairs, cubicles, filing cabinet, andarmoire desks. Two very common medium-to-high-cost office equipment items before the advent of suitably priced word processing machines and PCs in the 1970's and 1980's were typewriters and adding machines.

Many businesses in the office supply industry have recently expanded into related markets for businesses like copy centers, which facilitate the creation and printing of business collateral such as business cards and stationery, plus printing and binding of high quality, high volume business and engineering documents. Some businesses also provide services for shipping, including packaging and bulk mailing. In addition, many retail chains sell related supplies beyond businesses and regularly market their stores as a center for school supplies with August and early September being a major retail period for Back to school sales.