Gideon Sundbäck (1880 - 1954) was a Canadian (Swedish-born) inventor. He invented the modern zipper in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada in 1913. His invention was based upon the previous work of other engineers such as Elias Howe, Max Wolff, and Whitcomb Judson (whose daughter Sundback married). The patent was issued in 1917 under the name separable fastener. The name zipper was created by B.F. Goodrich who used the device on their new boots. Initially boots and tobacco pouches were the primary use for zippers and it took another twenty years before they caught on in the fashion industry.Gideon Sundback also invented the manufacturing machine for the zippers. The zipper beat the button in 1937 for the usage of the "fly" in trousers. Zippers were said to exclude the possibility of Unintentional and Embarrassing Disarray. 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An inventor is a person who creates new inventions, typically technical devices such as mechanical, electrical or software devices or methods. ... Closeup of the zipper on a pair of jeans This article is about the fastening device called zipper zip, zipper, or the acronym ZIP, see zip (disambiguation). ... Nickname: The Garden City Motto: Industry and Liberality Location of St. ... 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Media:Example. ... Whitcomb Judson (1836-1909) was an American inventor, born in Chicago, IL. During his lifetime, he obtained patents for the zipper (which he called the clasp-locker), motor improvements, railroad brakes improvements, and a number of automobile improvements, and one of them made his son a millionaire. ... A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which is new, inventive, and... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... Categories: Companies traded on NYSE | Stub | Aerospace manufacturing companies | Fortune 500 companies | Companies based in North Carolina ... A pair of classic black leather Dr. Martens. ... Species Nicotiana acuminata Nicotiana alata Nicotiana attenuata Nicotiana benthamiana Nicotiana clevelandii Nicotiana excelsior Nicotiana forgetiana Nicotiana glauca Nicotiana glutinosa Nicotiana langsdorffii Nicotiana longiflora Nicotiana obtusifolia Nicotiana paniculata Nicotiana plumbagifolia Nicotiana quadrivalvis Nicotiana repanda Nicotiana rustica Nicotianasuaveolens Nicotiana sylvestris Nicotiana tabacum Nicotiana tomentosa Ref: ITIS 30562 as of August 26, 2005... The term fashion usually applies to a prevailing mode of expression, but quite often applies to a personal mode of expression that may or may not adhere to prevailing ideals. ...
The design used today, based on interlocking teeth, was invented by an employee of Whitcomb Judson's, Swedish born scientist GideonSundback.
Only after Gideon Sundbach, had remodeled Judson's fastener into a more streamlined and reliable form, was the fastener a success.
A fastening device consisting of parallel rows of metal, plastic, or nylon teeth on adjacent edges of an opening that are interlocked by a sliding tab.
Swedish immigrant and electrical engineer GideonSundback was hired to work for Universal Fastener Company, good design skills and a marriage to the plant manager's daughter Elvira Aronson led Sundback to the position of head designer at Universal.
He was responsible for improving the far from perfect "Judson C-curity Fastener." Unfortunately Sundback's wife died in 1911, and the grieving husband busied himself at the design table, by December of 1913 he came up with a design that became the zipper as it is known today.
Sundback increased the number of fastening elements from four per inch to ten or eleven, two facing rows of teeth that pulled into a single piece by the slider, and increased the opening for the teeth guided by the slider.
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