| Show the first wire nall nail although tile the wire nail Is a thing it would be a big thing to do without probably no one could estimate the ho millions or billions or tr trillions 11 whatever tho the number may be that alint tire are used in a single year yet the first wire nails in n the unites states were made no longer ago than 1872 the first machine for their manufacture was brought over froni from dusseldorf and set up in covington ky ity later this single machine was multiplied by four and a company was organized in 1884 the manufacture of wire nails was begun in beaver falls pa and the product was already beginning to grow in popularity and usefulness ful ness just a year later a strike temporarily shut off the manufacture of cut nalla nails and the tha wire nail was it la such demand that the manufacturers were swamped from that time imp dates tile the supremacy nr f the wire nail |
