The first stapler was a hand-wrought device used by King Louis XV of France in the 18th century. In the 19th century, the growing utilization of paper created the need for a useful paper fastening device. George McGill invented a petite, flexible, brass-paper holdfast for which he received the US patent in 1866. It was a forerunner of the modern-day staple. He also invented a press to inject the clip into the paper.
Henry R. Heyl is considered to be the founder of the stapler used today. He invented the first device, which would inject and clamp a staple at once and received a patent for it. McGill got patent for the foremost commercially flourishing stapler—the McGill Single- Strope Staple Press. The early 1900s saw the development and patent of many appliances that perforated and bent papers to fix them to one another in the absence of a metallic fastener. The kind of stapler, most commonly used today, was developed in 1941, the four-way paper stapler.
