Google Pays Homage to Zipper Engineer Gideon Sundback

Today, an image of a zipper runs down Google s home page in celebration of the 132nd birthday of Gideon Sundback, who helped make the device an indispensable item for today’s man on the go. (Read that as you will.) Sundback did not invent the slide fastener, as it is generically called (“zipper” is actually a trade name for a version developed by the B.F. Goodrich company).

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Google Pays Homage to Zipper Engineer Gideon Sundback