Editing Paper shredder (section)

===Invention===
The first paper shredder is credited to [[inventor]] [[Abbot Augustus Low]], whose [[patent]] was filed on February 2, 1909.<ref>Abbot Augustus Low [https://patents.google.com/patent/US929960 Waste-paper receptacle] February 2, 1909 Patent filing</ref> His invention was never manufactured because he died prematurely soon after filing the patent.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last1=Beyes|first1=Timon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3qnDDwAAQBAJ&q=Abbot+Augustus+Low+paper+shredder&pg=PA303|title=The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies|last2=Holt|first2=Robin|last3=Pias|first3=Claus|date=2019-12-17|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-253795-9|language=en}}</ref>

Adolf Ehinger's paper shredder, based on a hand-crank [[pasta maker]], was the first to be manufactured in 1935 in Germany. Supposedly he created a shredding machine to shred his [[anti-Nazi]] leaflets to avoid the inquiries of the authorities.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Woestendiek|first1=John|title=The Compleat History of SHREDDING|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2002-02-10-0202110302-story.html|access-date=22 February 2017|newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|date=February 10, 2002|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822084311/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2002-02-10/entertainment/0202110302_1_paper-shredders-papyrus-thereof|archive-date=22 August 2016}}</ref> Ehinger later marketed and began selling his patented shredders to government agencies and financial institutions switching from hand-crank shredders to electric motor shredders.<ref name=":0" /> Ehinger's company, EBA Maschinenfabrik, manufactured the first cross-cut paper shredders in 1959 and continues to do so today as EBA Krug & Priester GmbH & Co. in [[Balingen]].

Before the [[fall of the Berlin Wall]], a “wet shredder” was invented in the former [[German Democratic Republic]]. To prevent paper shredders in the [[Stasi|Ministry for State Security (Stasi)]] from glutting, this device mashed paper snippets with [[water]].<ref name=":0" />

With a shift from paper to digital document production, modern industrial shredders have been designed to process non-paper media, such as [[credit card]]s and [[CD]]s.<ref name=":0" />