Whitcomb L. Judson
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Whitcomb L. Judson is credited with exhibiting the idea of a slide fastener at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. His invention, called a clasp locker, used hooks and eyes with a sliding clasp. Gideon Sundback later improved upon this design, creating what is considered the first modern zipper. The term "zipper" itself was coined in 1923 by B.G. Work of the B.F. Goodrich Company for use on overshoes, and the fastener quickly became popular for clothing in the late 1920s and early 1930s.12
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