This grew out of my Down Da Road I Go Blog which now has become primarily what I'm doing and music. I was getting so much history in it, I spun this one off and now have World War II and War of 1812 blogs which came off this one. The Blog List below right has all the way too many blogs that I write.
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Chicago Innovations That Changed the World-- Part 2: The Zipper
18. THE ZIPPER (1893) Another thing not "invented" in Chicago, made its debut, well, the protype did. In 1893, inventor Whitcomb L. Judson revealed his patented "clasp holder" at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, now considered to be the proto-zipper. It was originally designed for shoes. //// In Pennsylvania, inventor Fredrik Gideon Sundback added more teeth per inch, ten to be exact. That was 1914 and it was still not called a zipper. It was the "Hookless No. 2." //// B.F. Goodrich popularized the name "zipper" for the sound it made on its rubber boots in the 1920s. //// Flies Would Never be the Same. --Cooter
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