[digerati]

Canadians Can Be PROUD!

21. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin,
zambonis, the telephone and short wave radios that save countless lives
each year.

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Swedes can also be proud!!

Zipper


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So who invented it?

[ToshiroOC]

A Swede in Canada or a Canadian in Sweden?

[HawK]

None of them!! it was....:
Nature: invented it more than 60 million years ago

[Roadee]

You might want to explain that nature thing.....for those of us that are burnt out

[Judas]

.....Feathers natureally developed a "zipper" kind of idea.... we just made it more "usefull"..... hard to explain... i'd have to find that paper in school.....showing how it's all done...

[Asmoday]

Hey...i just did a google search "swedish inventions" ...i cant verify that those inventions are Swedish...

Copy and pasted from: sverigeturism.se ...

The Zipper
It should be admitted that the first person obtaining a patent for a zipper was an American. The first construction that could be used for practical purposes, however, was made by the Swedes Peter A. Aronsson and Gideon Sundbäck. In 1913, Sundbäck took out a patent for the new construction, and this model has been used ever since (the only change being that zippers today are sometimes made of plastics).

[mbeeston]

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/indexz.shtml the american's 8|

[HawK]

first zipper

[Judas]

cool... neato link there hawk...