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Whitcomb L. Judson (March 7, 1843 – December 7, 1909) was an American machine salesman, mechanical engineer and inventor. He received thirty patents over a sixteen-year career, fourteen of which were on pneumatic street railway innovations.
In 1892, Whitcomb L. Judson, an American inventor from Chicago, patented the original design from which the modern device evolved. [1] The zipper gets its name from a brand of rubber boots (or galoshes) it was used on in 1923. The galoshes could be fastened with a single zip of the hand, and soon the hookless fasteners came to be called ...
Whitcomb Judson (1836–1909), U.S. – zipper Percy Lavon Julian (1899–1975), U.S. – chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants Ma Jun ( fl. 220–265), China – south-pointing chariot (see differential gear ), mechanical puppet theater , chain pumps , improved silk looms
George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., inventor of the Ferris wheel; Whitcomb L. Judson, inventor of the zipper; Charles Rudolph Walgreen, founder of Walgreens; Albert Blake Dick, a businessman who founded the A. B. Dick Company, a major American copier manufacturer and office supply company of the 20th Century. He coined the word "mimeograph".
In 1891 Chicago inventor Whitcomb L. Judson wanted an easier way to lace up his shoes so he devised a system of hooks and eyes, plus a slide mechanism, to fasten and unfasten the hooks. He exhibited his device at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition .
Even though his invention wasn't a practical zipper per se, Judson is still referred to as the father/inventor of the zipper. 1917 saw the invention of the first practical zipper by Gideon Sundback, originally referred to as the "Separable Fastener”. This is actually the first metal zipper that was made and it consisted of scoops of a special ...
Whitcomb L. Judson was an American mechanical engineer from Chicago who was the first to invent, conceive of the idea, and to construct a workable zipper. [35] Using a hook-and-eye device, Judson intended for this earliest form of the zipper to be used on shoes.
Whitcomb L. Judson (1843–1909), American inventor of the zipper; James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916), American writer and poet; Places. Whitcomb, Indiana;