Gideon Sundback - Google.

Gideon Sundback is remembered 132 years from his birth with adoodle on Google.

Gideon Sundback, the creator of the closure, is remembered for the 132 th anniversary of his birth. To commemorate the date, Googleintends on Tuesday 24 March an ingenious 'doodle': included avirtual rack that works by simply moving your mouse.

But who is Gideon Sundback? The Swedish inventor made ​​hisgreat creation basadándose in the contributions made by other engineers, dating between 1906 and 1914. The first use of the closure was in a pair of boots. Then implemented it in bags for snuffand only 20 years after the "zipper" as it was called, came to thefashion industry.

Sundback was also the creator of a button making machine with which could greatly speed up production. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.While in 2006 his name was included in the National Hall of Fameof Inventors for his work on the development of the zipper. 0