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Gideon Sundback was a Swedish-born electrical engineer whose work in the United States improved the early slide fastener into the form underlying the modern zipper. He developed a design with closely spaced interlocking metal elements and machinery capable of manufacturing the fastener efficiently,...
Whitcomb L. Judson was an American inventor associated with an early mechanical fastener that anticipated the modern zipper. In 1893 he received a patent for a clasp-locker using interlocking components operated by a sliding mechanism, and he later helped establish the Universal Fastener Company to...
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