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29.04. Gideon Sundbek. How to make history
1913 Being on the verge of bankruptcy, Judson to find way out of the impasse in the case drew the engineer Gideon Sundbeka - shvedoamerikantsa. Tom was able to significantly simplify the design, make it more reliable: metal units were attached to the two textile ribbons staggered. Castle slider joined or severed portion of the fastener. However, manufacturers and gentlemen, remembering the sad fiasco of the previous version, in no hurry to take on mass production.
The breakthrough came when the president B.F. Goodrich Bertram Rock chose this fastener for mass production of rubber galoshes. His charmed sound fastener elements are produced when - zip (something like "vzhzhzhik"). It took the name of the model - Zipper Boots, which has become a household word in the English language
. Well, in 2012, Google in honor of the momentous event concocted clip.