Talk:Filing cabinet/Archives/2015

Invention/origin of filing cabinets.

In the section "Vertical File", I read: "The invention of the vertical file remains an unsolved mystery." And then it goes on to give details to back up this assertion.

Yet, at Edwin G. Seibels, we read about a man who apparently invented this very thing. If this article is correct, then it may not be such a mystery after all, even if certain points are uncertain. Or else it is a real mystery, and the article about Seibels contains errors. (The article states that he applied for, but was denied, a patent for his invention, on the grounds that it was only an idea, not a device. Is that ground for discounting him as the inventor of the filing cabinet? If so, then his article needs to be amended, and not call him the "inventor" of it.)

Whichever it is (and I am not knowledgeable enough to take a view on this), the contradiction needs to be resolved in one or both articles.

And if Seibels didn't invent the filing cabinet, then not only should his article be amended, but perhaps this article should cover the assertion that he invented it, and discuss why this is incorrect - because I have seen his name associated with the invention of filing cabinets in a couple of now-forgotten sources. M.J.E. (talk) 13:50, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Capacity

How many folders and pieces of paper does a filing cabinet normally hold?

Depends on the weight (thickness of the paper), whether it is a form, wrinkled/unwrinkled, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.125.84.82 (talk) 23:52, 26 September 2008 (UTC)