Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa
27 May 2012 - 6:30 pm NZ time
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History of the zip
from This Way Up on Saturday 15 August 2009
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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