It is a contraption that has
become part and parcel of our life, used in many ways, daily. Strangely, they can increase or decrease the
size of an opening to allow or restrict the passage of objects; join or separate
two ends or sides ; attach or detach ; decorate an item.
It is the ‘Zip; the
Zipper; Zip fastener” – which can achieve the above stated variations by sewing one
end of the zipper together, sewing both ends together, or allowing both ends of
the zipper to fall completely apart. A
zipper costs relatively little, but if it fails, the garment may be unusable
until the zipper is repaired or replaced—which can be quite difficult and
expensive. A failure can cause great
embarrassment depending on which part of the garment it is placed. Zips are extensively used in clothing,
luggage bags, sporting goods, camping gears and many other items.
The man associated with it
is Gideon Sundback who was born on this day (April 24th
1880) He
was a Swedish-American electrical engineer. After his studies in Sweden , Sundback moved to Germany
The mechanical wonder that keeps
lives together has come a long way since it was conceived. The magazine and fashion industry made the
novel zipper the popular item it is today, but it happened nearly eighty years
after the zipper's first appearance.
Elias Howe, who invented the sewing machine received a patent in 1851
for an 'Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure.' Perhaps it was the success of
the sewing machine, which caused Elias not to pursue marketing his clothing
closure. As a result, Howe missed his chance to become the recognized 'Father
of the Zip.' Within the first year of
operation, Sundback's zipper-making machinery was producing a few hundred feet
of fastener per day.
The popular 'zipper' name came
from the B. F. Goodrich Company, when they decided to use Gideon's fastener on
a new type of rubber boots or galoshes and renamed the device the zipper, the
name that lasted. Boots and tobacco pouches with a zippered closure were the
two chief uses of the zipper during its early years. It took twenty more years
to convince the fashion industry to seriously promote the novel closure on
garments.
Today Google featured a very
attractive doodle remembering - Gideon
Sundback
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar .
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