the.com/pushpin
a thumbtack that learned to flex, holding your ambitions to a wall with one needle.
means A small pin with a large rounded or bulbous head, designed to be pushed into a board or wall by hand to hold up papers, photos, or notes.
from A transparent compound of plain English words: 'push' (the verb for pressing something forward, from Old French 'pousser' and ultimately Latin 'pulsare,' to beat or thrust) plus 'pin' (Old English 'pinn,' a peg or bolt, with cousins across the Germanic languages). Curiously, 'push-pin' was first a child's game — players pushed pins across a table trying to cross an opponent's — and the word for the modern board-pin came later, when the act of pushing a pin into something needed a name of its own.
- invented
- Edwin Moore patented the pin with a head in 1900
- name origin
- sold first as the simple slogan a pin
- map duty
- colored heads track wars, crimes, and conspiracy strings
- hidden danger
- hospitals treat thousands for swallowed and stepped-on tacks yearly
- philosophy
- Bentham ranked pushpin as good as poetry
thumbtack — common office supply used to hang papers on bulletin boards since the 1800s
google maps pushpin — the red teardrop icon marking locations on google maps, introduced in 2005