For three long years… I didn’t even know that my black jeans (grey now) actually have blue/gold zipper until I took this shot…=D
In 1893 Whitcomb Judson of Chicago (who also invented the ‘Pneumatic Street Railway’) marketed a ‘Clasp Locker’ a complicated hook-and-eye shoe fastener. The clasp locker was an assemblage of hooks and eyes that Judson thought would save people time and sore backs fastening their shoes with one hand. Together with businessman Colonel Lewis Walker, Whitcomb launched the Universal Fastener Company to manufacture the new device.
Swedish immigrant and electrical engineer, Gideon Sundback was hired to work for the Universal Fastener Company. Good design skills and a marriage to the plant-manager’s daughter Elvira Aronson led Sundback to the position of head designer at Universal. He was responsible for improving the far from perfect ‘Judson C-curity Fastener.’ Unfortunately, Sundback’s wife died in 1911. The grieving husband busied himself at the design table, by December of 1913, he came up with the modern zipper.
Source: Wikipedia/History of Zipper
Posted by puppies8691 on 2008-03-17 15:11:04
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