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2. Velcro - Wikipedia

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   Website. www.velcro.co.uk. Velcro IP Holdings LLC, [2][4][5] doing business as Velcro Companies and commonly referred to as Velcro (pronounced / ˈvɛlkroʊ /), [1] is a British privately held company, founded by Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral in the 1950s. It is the original manufacturer of hook-and-loop fasteners, which de ...

3. Hook-and-loop fastener - Wikipedia

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   Hook-and-loop fasteners, hook-and-pile fasteners or touch fasteners (often referred to by the genericized trademark velcro, which was the original name it was given by the inventor), are a method for allowing two surfaces to be repeatedly fastened and unfastened, useful for clothing or other purposes. The fastener consists of two components ...

4. George de Mestral - Wikipedia

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   Biography. He was born to Albert de Mestral, an agronomist engineer, and Marthe de Goumoëns in Saint Saphorin sur Morges, near Lausanne, Switzerland. De Mestral designed a toy airplane at age twelve and patented it. He attended the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). After graduation in 1930, he worked in the machine shop of an ...

5. High cholesterol early in life can predispose to ...

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   Early-life cholesterol could affect a person’s cardiovascular risk in adulthood, a new study has found. Image credit: Rawpixel/Getty Images. Higher levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL ...

6. List of generic and genericized trademarks - Wikipedia

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   Velcro: Hook-and-loop fastener Velcro Companies: Used as generic, but still trademarked. [215] Often used as a verb. [216] Vetsin Monosodium glutamate: Tien Chun Ve-Tsin: Philippine term for monosodium glutamate, from the formerly most popular brand. Ajinomoto leads the monosodium glutamate market presently, but people still refer to it as ...

7. Cable tie - Wikipedia

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   A cable tie (also known as a hose tie, tie wrap, wire tie, zap-straps, or zip tie) is a type of fastener for holding items together, primarily electrical cables and wires. Because of their low cost, ease of use, and binding strength, cable ties are ubiquitous, finding use in a wide range of other applications. Cable ties were first manufactured ...