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The Man Who Zippered the World: Gideon Sundback
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Publisher: Michael Webster
Published: Dec 20 2025
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The zipper. It's the sound of speed, convenience, and modernity. It's on your jacket, your luggage, and your shoes. But who invented it?
In the early 1900s, the device that promised quick fastening was a mechanical disaster, constantly failing and prone to embarrassment. Enter Gideon Sundback, the brilliant, little-known Swedish electrical engineer who inherited the nightmare.
Driven by relentless precision, Sundback didn't just improve the fastener-he reinvented it, creating the reliable, interlocking mechanism that would arm soldiers in WWI, revolutionize the fashion industry, and earn the unforgettable name: the zipper.
This is the definitive, comprehensive biography of the immigrant genius whose technical obsession holds the modern world together. Approx.168 pages, 31800 word count
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