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Giant paper clip erected in 1989 in Sandvika, Norway, to honor Vaaler's invention. This 23-foot-tall (7 m) clip is the Gem, not the one patented by Vaaler. Johan Vaaler (March 15, 1866 – March 14, 1910) was a Norwegian inventor and patent clerk. [1] He has often erroneously been identified as the inventor of the common paper clip.
The paper clips were sent by various people by mail; the letters came from about 20 different countries. Some celebrities, like George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Bill Cosby, Steven Spielberg, Tom Bosley and Tom Hanks were among those mailing in the clips. As of the summer of 2004, the school had collected about 24 million paper clips.
A History of What Comes Next – a 2021 alternate history novel that features Operation Paperclip and its Soviet counterpart, Operation Osoaviakhim Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – a 2023 film in which the main antagonist is a Nazi scientist working for the Apollo program in 1969.
A group of 104 rocket scientists at Fort Bliss, Texas. Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.
The first mass outbreak of civil disobedience occurred in the autumn of 1940, when students of Oslo University began to wear paper clips on their lapels to demonstrate their resistance to the German occupiers and their Norwegian collaborators. A seemingly innocuous item, the paper clip was a symbol of solidarity and unity ("we are bound ...
"Paper Clip" featured guest appearances by Sheila Larken, Melinda McGraw and Nicholas Lea. The episode is one of those that explored the overarching mythology, or fictional history of The X-Files. "Paper Clip" earned a Nielsen household rating of 11.1, being watched by 17.2 million people in its initial broadcast.
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Operation Paperclip Team at Fort Bliss, Texas, August 1946. Rudolph is in the front row, fourth from the left. (pointing the mouse will show the name) Rudolph was transferred to the British to participate in Operation Backfire from July to October 1945. [3]: 99 He was then transferred back to the Americans.