July 25, 2008
The History of the Paper Shredder
By Jenny in Business | 0 comments
The first paper shredder was invented and patented in 1909 by a gentleman named Abbot Augustus Low whose "waste paper receptacle" was a new way of disposing wasted paper but was never manufactured. Although, another product in Germany was manufactured in 1935 by Adolf Ehinger who was finding new ways to destroy information so that the Nazi party would not know information of his anti-Nazi publishing. This was done with a reinvented type of hand-cranked pasta maker.
Later inventions added motors to the crank for easy usage by the governments and other institutions that needed the service of discretion to their customers like banks and lending institutions. Later into the 1980s, when information had become abundant and quite easy to get a hold of did paper shredders move from the larger scale of big businesses into the homes around town. Laws had changed to let garbage and other things that have been discarded by someone to be deemed public property. It was left to the people to protect themselves from things as stolen credit card numbers, bank accounts and other information that is vital to ones survival in this day and age of technology. The high security shredder of today provides protection that is necessary in office shredders, as well as with an industrial shredder.
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