Otto Frederick Gideon Sundback (April 24, 1880 – June 21, 1954) was a Swedish-American electrical engineer and inventor.
Sundback made several advances in the development of the zipper between 1906 and 1914, while working for companies that later evolved into Talon, Inc. He built upon the previous work of other engineers such as Elias Howe, Max Wolff, and Whitcomb Judson. Gideon Sundback was hired to work for the Universal Fastener Company. Good ...
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Otto Frederick Gideon Sundback (April 24, 1880 – June 21, 1954) was a Swedish-American electrical engineer and inventor.
Sundback made several advances in the development of the zipper between 1906 and 1914, while working for companies that later evolved into Talon, Inc. He built upon the previous work of other engineers such as Elias Howe, Max Wolff, and Whitcomb Judson. Gideon Sundback was hired to work for the Universal Fastener Company. Good design skills and a marriage to Elvira Aronson, daughter of the plant-manager Peter Aronsson led Sundbäck to the position of head designer at Universal. He was responsible for improving the "Judson C-curity Fastener". He increased the number of fastening elements from four per inch to ten or eleven had 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. The patent for the "Separable Fastener" was issued in 1917.
The name zipper was created by B.F. Goodrich who...
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