Today is the 132nd birthday of Gideon Sundback. Who is he? And what did he invent that, in it's own small way, has had an enormous effect on making a lot of things that we do and use much easier.
He's even on the Google Doodle for today.
Check it out @
https://www.google.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/24/gideon-sundback-zipper-engineer-google-doodle_n_1448482.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/24/gideon-sundback-celebrated-google-doodle?newsfeed=true
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/is-the-gideon-sundback-google-doodle-2012s-best-yet/251721-11.html
Look up his bio @
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Sundback
How does his invention work?
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/how-the-gideon-sundback-zipper-works/251686-11.html
What's the controversy?
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Pioneers/2012/0424/Google-honors-Gideon-Sundback-Father-of-the-zipper
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dmac
3 comments:
It's the little things that make the biggest difference. And it's exactly these things that have the most impact on society. Imagine a world without zippers and the effect it had on the clothing and luggage industries. What other device relies on a zipper?
materials would be so much different if we didnt have zippers. everything would be buttons which is a pain in the ass
zippers are a real big help. Wow! i can't imagine not having them.
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