zoomer
Well-Known Member
Today google.com features a zipper. Click to pull it and you can learn about Gideon Sundback (born today in 1880), who designed the first workable hookless fastener in 1913.
Just one thing...no mention of the zipper's first wide scale use in clothing, which, if I'm not mistaken, was in Jacket, Flying, Type A-2, as adopted in 1931. Even Wikipedia says it didn't catch on (pun...hehe) until put into children's clothes and trouser flies.
Goes to show you how people ignored the military in the interwar years, even in new developments in the hot field of aviation technology.
The B-1 and B-2 flight suits, with zipper closures, came out about this same time, and it is obvious in this 1933 news release that people did not understand how a zipper worked. The caption said it was fastened by being "laced!"
Just one thing...no mention of the zipper's first wide scale use in clothing, which, if I'm not mistaken, was in Jacket, Flying, Type A-2, as adopted in 1931. Even Wikipedia says it didn't catch on (pun...hehe) until put into children's clothes and trouser flies.
Goes to show you how people ignored the military in the interwar years, even in new developments in the hot field of aviation technology.
The B-1 and B-2 flight suits, with zipper closures, came out about this same time, and it is obvious in this 1933 news release that people did not understand how a zipper worked. The caption said it was fastened by being "laced!"
