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	Whitcomb L. Judson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Whitcomb L. Judson (1836-1909) was an American inventor, born in Chicago, Illinois.
		Whitcomb is most famous for inventing the forerunner of the modern zipper in 1893, which he called the clasp-locker.
		Judson has had a high school in Converse, Texas named in his honor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whitcomb_L._Judson (115 words)

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		The inventor was Whitcomb L. Judson, then of Chicago, who titled his application "Clasp Locker or Unlocker for Shoes." They looked something like this: "On one side of an opening of a high top shoe is a row of hooklike clasps; on the other, a row of attachments.
		Judson's invention was still, even after some improvements, not very good, and even the patents promised only usefulness for shoes and not much else.
		Whitcomb Judson had actually had this idea in one of his 1896 patents, his idea was simply too complex for it to work.
	www.angelfire.com /hi/zipperhistory/story.html (2364 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		At the end of the 19th century, Judson was already a successful inventor, with a dozen patents to his credit for mechanical items such as improvements to motors and railroad braking systems.
		Although Judson displayed his clasp-locker at the World's Fair held in Chicago in 1893, the public largely ignored it.
		Regrettably, Whitcomb Judson died in 1909, and never heard the term, or saw the success, by which his invention would become ubiquitous.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/judson.html (305 words)

	Untitled
		Judson and Walker sold exactly twenty of them to the U.S. Postal Service so they could implement them on their mailbags.
		Judson was still convinced that the clasp locker was destined to take over buttons and shoelaces as a better fastener, so he continued to pursue marketing it.
		Although they were much more popular than they were when Whitcomb Judson made them, fasteners had yet to reach their peak of greatness.
	www.geocities.com /thezipperpage/zippers.html (1286 words)

	MPI Outdoor Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Whitcomb L. Judson was a lover of gadgets and machines and the idea for his "clasp locker" came from when a friend had a stiff back from trying to fasten his shoes.
		Judson's clasp locker was used mostly on mailbags, tobacco pouches and shoes.
		The name changed again when the B. Goodrich Co. used it in rubber boots, galoshes, and called it the "zipper" because the boots could be fastened with one hand.
	www.mpioutdoors.com /shootingsports/zipper.htm (267 words)

	Zipper History
		Whitcomb Judson of Chicago (who also invented the 'Pneumatic Street Railway') marketed a 'Clasp Locker' a complicated hook-and-eye shoe fastener.
		The clasp locker was an assemblage of hooks and eyes that Judson thought would save people time and sore backs fastening their shoes with one hand.
		He was responsible for improving the far from perfect 'Judson C-curity Fastener.' Unfortunately, Sundback's wife died in 1911.
	www.askandyaboutclothes.com /Teasers/Teasers/ZipperHistory.htm (537 words)

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		Whitcomb Judson applied for a patent for his slide fastener, the "Clasp Locker or Unlocker for Shoes" (U.S. Patent No. 504,038) on November 7, 1891.
		During this time, Judson applied for a second patent, significantly modifying his design for the fastenings.
		He seemed to be an ambitious, self-made, struggling, and eventually failing American mechaniac.His other describe overly complicated devices, such as a street railway that ran by long tubes kept spinning underground by compressed air.
	www.angelfire.com /hi/zipperhistory/names.html (284 words)

	Zippers & Velcro®
		A brief biography on Judson can be found in the Inventor of the Week Archives.
		The zipper was patented on August 29, 1893 (remember that date - it may show up on the exam I'm giving you next week) by Whitcomb Judson, a Chicago mechanical engineer.
		Judson displayed it at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair to a potential audience of 20 million people.
	home.nycap.rr.com /useless/zippers/index.html (654 words)

	Zipper History - Invention of the Zipper
		Judson came up with a slide fastener that could be opened or closed with one hand.
		The design used today, based on interlocking teeth, was invented by an employee of Judson's, Swedish born scientist Gideon Sundback, in 1913 and patented as the "Hookless Fastener" and after more improvements patented in 1917 as the "Separable Fastener".
		Whitcomb L. Judson invented the zipper and YKK is the Japanese company that makes them.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/zipper.htm (1294 words)

	No. 663: Zippers and Design
		Then Whitcomb Judson created something he called a "clasp and unclasp unlocker." He invented a slider that ran over a row of boot hooks, drawing them together.
		Judson's unlocker was the clumsy precursor of the Zipper.
		Judson began by trying to imitate the action of human hands hooking up a boot.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi663.htm (511 words)

	BookRags: Zipper Summary
		The zipper was invented by Whitcomb L. Judson, a Chicago, Illinois, mechanical engineer, to relieve the tedium of fastening by hand the fashionable high-buttoned boots of the time.
		Judson's fastener, called the Clasp Locker and patented in 1893, consisted of a movable guide that meshed together two sets of hooks and eyes.
		Judson also invented a machine to mass produce his fasteners cheaply.
	www.bookrags.com /research/zipper-woi (349 words)

	Zipper - Background, Raw Materials, The Manufacturing
		Judson's mechanism was an arrangement of hooks and eyes with a slide clasp that would connect them.
		After Judson displayed the new clasp lockers at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, he obtained financial backing from Lewis Walker, and together they founded the Universal Fastener Company in 1894.
		Judson invented a zipper that would part completely (like the zippers found on today's jackets), and he discovered it was better to clamp the teeth directly onto a cloth tape that could be sewn into a garment, rather than have the teeth themselves sewn into the garment.
	www.madehow.com /Volume-1/Zipper.html (2460 words)

	Judson Family Crest
		The Anglo-Saxon name Judson comes from the names Judd and Jutt, which are pet forms of the personal name Jordan.
		In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
		In the Judson coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/judson-family-crest.htm (554 words)

	CBC4Kids: History of Inventions, a timeline from Pottery to Computers. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The inventor of the zipper was Whitcomb L. Judson, who came up with the fancy fastener to help out a friend.
		Judson's friend had a stiff back, and could not bend over to do up his shoes.
		Judson, a Chicago native, already owned over a dozen patents for mechanical items such as improvements to motors and railroad braking systems.
	www.cbc.ca /kids/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/zipper.html (146 words)

	Polyester Zippers,Metallic Zippers,Plastic Molded Zippers,Polyester Zippers Manufacturers,Metallic Zippers ...
		Being first to market gave Whitcomb the credit of being the 'Inventor of the Zipper', but his 1893 patent did not use the word zipper.
		In 1893, Whitcomb Judson, a Chicago inventor with dozens of patents, attempted to invent a replacement for the lengthy shoelaces used to fasten men’s and women’s boots.
		On August 29, 1893, Judson received a patent for his "clasp-locker," a somewhat reliable hook and eye fastener.
	www.ansun.com /history.html (1685 words)

	Apparel-Related Inventors and Inventions: EnchantedLearning.com
		JUDSON, WHITCOMB L. Whitcomb L. Judson was an American engineer from Chicago, Illinois, who invented a metal zipper device with locking teeth in 1890.
		Whitcomb L. Judson was an American engineer from Chicago, Illinois, who invented the zipper.
		Judson died in 1909, before his device became commonly used and well known.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /inventors/apparel.shtml (1936 words)

	Gideon Sundbach - The Zip Fastener - ( Elias Howe + Whitcomb Judson ) - Design And Technology On The Web - Inventors ...
		A manufacturer of boots placed an order for the fastener and so helped its popularity but the fastener was only eventually used in clothes production during the 1930's.
		The original inventor of the 'zip' was Elias Howe (1851 patent) (who incidentally also invented the sewing machine) with an improvement to the zip by Whitcomb Judson in 1891 although his version depended more on a hook and eye system that was opened and closed with a slider.
		His design was for boots and it is ironic that the order for Sundback's fastener took off because of an order from a boot company too.
	www.design-technology.info /inventors/page16.htm (255 words)

	Judson Genealogy
		Judson Leulah J of Dobbes Ferry New York m.
		A note from Ron Westberg on Whitcomb L. Judson: My grandfather (Authur G.Westberg) was the VP of the Talon Hookless Fastener company in Meadville, PA. The invention, zipper, I know was invented by Whitcomb L. Judson (from Sweden).
		My uncle remembers Whitcomb and told me that Whitcomb sold the invention to Col. Lewis Walker a lawyer from PA. I have an old desk pipe stand that dates back to the turn of the century.
	www.geocities.com /TheTropics/1926/bits.html (1622 words)

	Pimp Ya Hide, man!: ZIP HISTORY & how zippers work
		Whitcomb Judson (who also invented the 'Pneumatic Street Railway') marketed a 'Clasp Locker' a device similar to the 1851 Howe patent.
		Being first to market it gave Whitcomb the credit of being the 'Inventor of the Zipper', However, his 1893 patent did not use the word zipper.
		The grieving husband busied himself at the design table and by December of 1913, he had designed the modern zipper.
	www.dressthatman.net /2005/09/zip-history-how-zippers-work.html (710 words)

	Corporate Design Foundation - @issue journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		First patented in 1893 by Chicago engineer Whitcomb Judson, the sliding clasp was meant to be a godsend for high-button shoe wearers, doing away with the need to hook 20 or so tiny buttons.
		Undeterred, in 1904 Judson unveiled an improved model, the C-Curity.
		Convinced the concept was still sound, Judson's backers put engineer Gideon Sundback to work on the problem and introduced the Plako as "the C-Curity fastener made perfect" in 1913.
	www.cdf.org /journal/0601_zipper.php (452 words)

	History of the Zipper
		But it was Whitcomb Judson from Chicago who first marketed the 'Clasp Locker', which was patented on August 29, 1893.
		Together with businessman Lewis Walker, Whitcomb launched the Universal Fastener Company to manufacture the new device.
		In 1913, Swedish immigrant and electrical engineer, Gideon Sundback, who worked at the Universal Fastener Company produced a better model, the 'Separable Fastener.' It was patented in 1917 and is what we know today as the modern zipper.
	www.jnzipper.com /historyofzipper.htm (246 words)

	INSPIRATION LINE Trivia and Facts: The Zipper
		Whitcomb L. Judson, a Chicago mechanical engineer, loved machines and experimented with
		He invented a number of labor-saving items, including the zipper.
		Undaunted, Judson founded the Universal Fastener Company to manufacture his new device.
	www.inspirationline.com /Brainteaser/zipper.htm (376 words)

	Osha Inspections: A Survival Guide - MC Magazine May/Junel 2006 - Concrete Publications - NPCA
		For example, after years of rejection, Whitcomb Judson’s “clasp locker” eventually caught on.
		The idea for it came about because of a friend’s stiff back and resulting inability to fasten his shoes, so by 1893 Judson patented his clasp locker, a slide fastener that could be opened and closed with one hand.
		In 1913, Gideon Sundback – Judson’s employee – took the idea up a notch and patented the “hookless fastener” and in 1917 the “separable fastener.” BF Goodrich decided to use the fasteners on galoshes, and the invention became an instant hit.
	www.precast.org /publications/mc/2006_mayjune/mending_mindset.htm (1371 words)

	Science and Society Picture Library - Search
		The zip fastener was first invented for fastening shoes by the American inventor Whitcomb Judson (d 1909) in 1891.
		The zip fastener has two sets of interlocking teeth, meshed by means of a slide that moves up and down.
		Keywords: 20th Century, Age of Electricity (1870-1913, Clothing, Fasteners, Fastenings, France, Judson, Judson, Whitcomb, Locks, Locks And Fastenings, Whitcomb, Zip, Zip Fastenings
	www.scienceandsociety.co.uk /results.asp?image=10314066 (124 words)

	Amazon.com: Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty: Books: Robert D. Friedel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		How the ingenious zipper, a newfangled, unwanted novelty, became a ubiquitous part of daily life is the story told in this engaging chronicle peopled by a colorful cast of characters.
		The zipper can be traced to oddball Chicago inventor Whitcomb Judson, whose awkward shoe fastener, patented in 1893, never quite caught on.
		Lewis Walker, a suave Pennsylvania lawyer and investor, made the hookless fastener his mission, enlisting the help of Otto Gideon Sundbach, a Swedish immigrant engineer who improved on Judson's invention with a 1917 patent that revolutionized the modern zipper.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393035999?v=glance (1106 words)

	Macomb Co., Michigan Genealogy Queries Page 6
		At some time they moved to Detroit where Louis was engaged in bookkeeping and as a conductor on a street car line.
		The children of Louis Judson WHITCOMB and Eva SNOVER attended school at the one room school house in Davis, Mi.
		I am searching for the dates of death for Louis Judson WHITCOMB and Eva (Mary/Minnie) SNOVER, the location of their burial sites and the location of the SNOVER FARM in Davis or Ray, Mi.
	www.ole.net /~maggie/macomb/queries9.htm (3011 words)

	Ancestry Message Boards - Message [ Judson ]
		In Reply to: Whitcomb Judson by: Susie McDonough
		I did a report of the history of the zipper here recently and had to look up Mr.
		I looked everywhere and that is all that I found on one website was that there are no records of his life.
	boards.ancestry.com /mbexec/msg/an/URl.2ACEB/224.2 (76 words)

	Haband Clearance Men Shirts Zip-Front Shirt
		When Whitcomb L. Judson invented the zipper in 1893 it was primarily used to close tobacco pouches and mailbags.
		Judson realized the potential of his invention, he wouldn't have had to button his shirts for the rest of his life!
		Find the yellow box above the color choices on the order form and enter the numbers next to the Smiley Face here!
	www.haband.com /shop/10K09 (99 words)

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