Nope. From JCI Insitute: “Today, the zipper one of fashion’s most ubiquitous accessories, but it wasn’t always so popular. Leapfrogging off the work of inventors before him, Gideon Sundback, a Swedish-born electrical engineer who immigrated to Canada, invented the zipper as we know it today in 1917. It was first manufactured by the Lightning Fastener Company in St. Catherines, Ontario, and was called the “separable fastener” until the B.F. Goodrich company renamed it the “zipper” in 1923. It wasn’t until the 30s that the zipper became more popular than the button.”
Au contraire. Sandbach’s invention was a variation (okay, improvement) on a previously-patented “clasp-locker” in the US from the 1890s. Couldn’t document the connection to Meadville, that must be a local legend there; but as far as the invention goes, Whitcomb L. Judson gets the prior claim. Still, I guess Canada can claim the improvement and skill of marketing that made Judson’s invention a source of joy and relief to all. American invention, Canadian distribution. (Given the general superiority of Canada as a society, you gotta throw the rapidly-sinking neighbor to the south a bone . . . )
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Wait–zippers? I thought those were invented in Meadville, PA.
Nope. From JCI Insitute: “Today, the zipper one of fashion’s most ubiquitous accessories, but it wasn’t always so popular. Leapfrogging off the work of inventors before him, Gideon Sundback, a Swedish-born electrical engineer who immigrated to Canada, invented the zipper as we know it today in 1917. It was first manufactured by the Lightning Fastener Company in St. Catherines, Ontario, and was called the “separable fastener” until the B.F. Goodrich company renamed it the “zipper” in 1923. It wasn’t until the 30s that the zipper became more popular than the button.”
Au contraire. Sandbach’s invention was a variation (okay, improvement) on a previously-patented “clasp-locker” in the US from the 1890s. Couldn’t document the connection to Meadville, that must be a local legend there; but as far as the invention goes, Whitcomb L. Judson gets the prior claim. Still, I guess Canada can claim the improvement and skill of marketing that made Judson’s invention a source of joy and relief to all. American invention, Canadian distribution. (Given the general superiority of Canada as a society, you gotta throw the rapidly-sinking neighbor to the south a bone . . . )