Gideon Sundback on Google Doodle

Posted by on Apr 24, 2012 in Google Doodle | 0 comments

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Google honors Swedish-Americal engineer Gideon Sundback with a doodle of a zipper going down an embroidered Google logo.

In 1941, Otto Fredrik Gideon Sundback developed a version based on interlocking teeth, the “Hookless No. 2″. In this fastener each tooth is punched to have a dimple on its bottom and a nib or conical projection on its top. It is the modern metal zipper in all its essentials.

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