History Of The Zipper

I just read an article that the man that invented the zipper originally named it the Clasp Locker back in 1851, Whitcomb got credit for being the "Inventor of the Zipper, The Chicago inventor's "Clasp Locker" was a complicated hook-and-eye shoe fastener. Together with businessman Colonel Lewis Walker, Whitcomb launched the Universal Fastener Company to manufacture the new device. The clasp locker debuted at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and was met with little commercial success.

http://www.madeeveryday.com/2015/12/sewing-gifting-favorite-zipper-pouches.html/

t was a Swedish-born electrical engineer named Gideon Sundback whose work helped make the zipper the hit it is today. Originally hired to work for the Universal Fastener Company, his design skills and a marriage to the plant-manager's daughter Elvira Aronson led to a position as head designer at Universal. In his position, he improved the far from perfect "Judson C-curity Fastener." And when Sundback's wife died in 1911, the grieving husband busied himself at the design table and by December of 1913, came up with what would become the modern zipper and now todays zippers are everywhere from, jackets to bags to jeans.