Conceptual Map

My view


From the research conducted within this study, that had as its main theme the subject "safety pin", I realized some thoughts that I will share with the reader in this text.

Firstly, I realized that there are some objects that we use in daily, that easily the accomplishment of tasks so simple that we didn’t realize the difficulty of our life if such objects had never existed. It's these little inventions that came in to facilitate our life . It is possible that the value of each object in life is not so significant and possibly we could live without them, but surely each of the small objects that surround our lives, some more than others, make a difference in how we live and how we behave.

The subject on which I focused my research is a great example of the importance of small inventions have in our lives and how the value we attach to them changes over time and from one culture to another. In ancient times, centuries before Christ, the safety pin, or rather his ancestor the “fibula” had importance in dress and was an important accessory to Etruscans, Greeks and many other peoples of the Mediterranean. However nowadays this object hasn’t the same importance it had in ancient times but still has an important role in the world of clothing and fashion, if we consider that this object in a few decades was the main way to hold diapers of babies, and that today would be a treat to find someone who still use this technique, we realize this alternation of the importance we attach to objects.

Yet this thing, was not always used with the same single objective and hence provides thousands of variations depending on the purpose for which it is used, and perhaps for this reason been improved and modified over time. Fortunately it is so, that there is this diversity so that the same object can thus be adapted to different people and different purposes.

UNUSUAL

Think you've seen everything? Do you think the safety pin is only used for sewing? You are very much mistaken! Here I leave some of the strangest things you can do with a pin, which I found during my research.

Precious accessory

Alfinete (from portuguese; safety pin)
Bite
Connections
Diapers
Encaixe (from portuguese; mortise)
Fine
Gave
Hurt
Imperdible (from spanish; safety pin)
Jealous
Keen
Locked
Mola (from portuguese; refers to the spring sistem)
Nib
Optimize
Pungiglione
Quantity
Rip
Safety
Tinny
Utilità
Versatilità
Work
X
Y
Zip

7 DEADLY SINS

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  Lust, someone who uses millions of safety pins as fashion accessory
  
  Gluttony, someone so hungry that eat safety pins
  
  Greed, the one who wants all the safety pins to himself because its a usefull object and want it only for himself
  
  Sloth, someone who never could use a safety pin because its to "hard.working" to open it
  
  Wrath, throwing opened safety pin's to hurt people
  
  Envy, of the man who created the very first safety pin, because its an amazing invention
  
  Pride, pride of having the most beutiful safety pin in the world, covered in gold with diamonds and sapphires.

HOW IT WORKS?

This object is as simple as effective and maybe that's why earlier in 1300 or 1250 b.C. in ancient Greece and Rome, were used very similar objects called "Fibula" for various utility functions.

Is normally one piece of metal with two parts very fine and long that in one of the extremities is folded with two turns, causing a spring effect and at the other end has a slot in which a pointed part fits.  This slot serves two purposes: to form a closed loop thereby properly fastening the pin to whatever it is applied to, and to cover the end of the pin to protect the user from the sharp point.                 

 

The safety pin runs through the elastic capacity of the material it is made​​, typically metal, utilizing a spring effect that allows one end peaked has space to engage and disengage so that when closed it remains so without the loose risk.

With a material that does not have enough elasticity is not possible that this object works, it is indispensable that there is a movement of the pointed end so as to open and close.