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    Swedish born émigré and engineer Gideon Sundback designed a slide-closing fastener. The name zipper was not coined by either Sundback or his company, Universal Fastener Company. Which company gave the name to the device they used on their galoshes?

    Question #88057. Asked by pmac41. (Nov 03 07 4:43 AM)


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    "Sundback wasn't the first to try and make a closure for clothing that improved on the performance of the button. But he took the concept one step further and ran with the ball. In 1913, he came up with a workable design and later the patent for his "Separable Fastener". It was the B.F. Goodrich Company who coined the word "zipper" when it applied Sundback's invention to the firm's rubber galoshes."



    Nov 03 07, 10:51 AM

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