Google Pays Homage to Zipper Engineer Gideon Sundback (Scientific American)
Today, an image of a zipper runs down Google s home page in celebration of the
132nd birthday of Gideon Sundback, who helped make the device an indispensable
item for today’s man on the go. (Read that as you will.) Sundback did not
invent the slide fastener, as it is generically called (“zipper” is actually a
trade name for a version developed by the B.F. Goodrich company). Rather, he
improved the device, which took several years to catch on, literally.
The story of the zipper made the June 1983 cover of Scientific American . The
author, Louis Weiner, an engineer who held several patents related to the
fastener, notes that credit for the invention goes to Whitcomb L. Judson, who
in 1893 received two U. S. patents for an automatic closing device actuated by
a slide mechanism, calling it a Clasp Locker or Unlocker for Shoes.
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