Google Honors Gideon Sundback: Father Of The Zipper -- Christian Science Monitor
Gideon Sundback is certainly the inventor of the modern 'zipper.' Except Sundback didn't invent the name.
Except, Sundback didn't invent the zipper. He invented the "Hookless No. 1" in 1914.
And as radically brilliant and enduring as his design may be, it wasn't until the 1920s, when B.F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio bought a bunch of "Hookless No. 2s" did the "zipper" make it's debut.
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My Comment: The zipper has gone a long way since it's invention in 1914.
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