15 Aug 2009

History of the zip

From This Way Up, 12:30 pm on 15 August 2009
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Zips are on everything nowadays. But the idea took about 40 years to get off the ground, two world wars got in the way, and tragedy struck one of its main inventors. Robert Friedel charts the history of the zipper.

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