(RNN) – You may not know who Gideon Sundback is, but you definitely know his most famous invention.
On the inventor’s 132nd birthday, the search engine literally unzips to honor the man who brought you the Hookless No. 2 – also known as the zipper.
Google’s latest doodle lets you unzip the page to reveal everything you never knew you wanted to know about the man and his toothy device. He’s known as the inventor of the zipper, but really he was the improver.
While working for the Universal Fastener Company, Sundback worked on (what else?) a universal fastener invented by other engineers, Max Wolff, Whitcomb Judson and Elias Howe, who also invented the sewing machine. (…)
via Google unzips for inventor Gideon Sundback – CBS 3 Springfield – WSHM.