Ha! If you thought a zipper was a person who zips by well you are not really wrong. The dictionary also has that definition. But zipper in its true form is—is a device used to fasten clothing or valises
It consists of two tracks together or spiral metal or plastic coils each bordering one of the two edges to be joined, these interlock or open when pulled with an attached tag.
Incidentally today was the day the zipper was patented after invention.
The zipper has gone through many inventors before it has attained its today’s form.
Elias Howe who invented the zipper in 1851 also invented the first zipper as he was busy with the sewing machine, he missed the bus on the title father of the zipper
Forty four years later whitcomb Judson who invented the pneumatic street railway patented it calling it the clasp locker. 1893 the zipper debuted as the clasp locker. Judson is generally credited with inventing the zipper.
In 1913 a Swedish Canadian called Gidean Sundback reinvented the zipper in its current form.
It was the Goodrich company which gave it its current name zipper- when it used it on boots and Tobacco pouches.
This was then picked up by the children’s cloths manufacturers as a concept that rendered the children independent.
It was only in 1930’s that the fashion industry discovered the zipper.
The hoarding industry named the fast moving flash boards of upper stories zippers to honor the quick closure that zippers allowed.
It consists of two tracks together or spiral metal or plastic coils each bordering one of the two edges to be joined, these interlock or open when pulled with an attached tag.
Incidentally today was the day the zipper was patented after invention.
The zipper has gone through many inventors before it has attained its today’s form.
Elias Howe who invented the zipper in 1851 also invented the first zipper as he was busy with the sewing machine, he missed the bus on the title father of the zipper
Forty four years later whitcomb Judson who invented the pneumatic street railway patented it calling it the clasp locker. 1893 the zipper debuted as the clasp locker. Judson is generally credited with inventing the zipper.
In 1913 a Swedish Canadian called Gidean Sundback reinvented the zipper in its current form.
It was the Goodrich company which gave it its current name zipper- when it used it on boots and Tobacco pouches.
This was then picked up by the children’s cloths manufacturers as a concept that rendered the children independent.
It was only in 1930’s that the fashion industry discovered the zipper.
The hoarding industry named the fast moving flash boards of upper stories zippers to honor the quick closure that zippers allowed.
