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| Gideon Sunback |
Gideon Gideon Sundback or Sundback Fredrik Otto is an American electrical engineer mix of Swedish nationality. Gideon Sundback often associated with his achievements in the discovery and development of the zipper (zipper / zipper). Today, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 is an anniversary that the Gideon Sundback 132. Without his services, perhaps we wear clothing that would not have advanced as today's zipper. He was born in Sweden. He was the son of Otto Jonas Magnusson Sundback, a wealthy farmer, his mother named Kristina Karolina Klasdotter. Having spent his early studies in Sweden, Sundback moved to Germany, where he studied at the polytechnic school in Bingen am Rhein.
In 1903, its engineers Sundback take the exam. In 1905, he moved to the United States. In America, Gideon Sundback began working at Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A year later, he was hired by Universal Fastener Company in Hoboken, New Jersey. In 1909, Aronson Sundback married Elvira, daughter of the Swedish-born plant manager, Sundback subsequently promoted to the position of head designer at Universal Fastener. Although not the originator of the first of a zipper, Gideon Sundback have made some progress in the development of the zipper between 1906 and 1914. He is responsible for the increase "Judson C-curity Fastener". At that time the company's products are based on the hooks and buttons. Sundback develop an improved version of the C-curity, called "Plako".
He increased the number of elements from
four per inch to ten or eleven. The discovery of his having two opposite rows of teeth are pulled into a single section with a slider, and increased the opening for the teeth guided by the slider. In 1914 Sundback develop a new version with the code name "Hookless No. 2", which is a modern metal zipper as we know it today.
On this discovery, he was awarded U.S. patent no. 1219881 for the "Separable Fastener" issued in 1917. The zipper itself was popularized in 1923 by BF Goodrich, once installed on their boots products. Twenty years later, the fashion industry began to implement the use of zippers, precisely at the time of World War II when the army began using trousers and shirts with the modern zipper.
