Zipper (English Wikipedia)

Mary Bellis (16 June 2010). "History of the zipper". About.com Inventors. Retrieved 14 July 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

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Li, Jiaji; Chang, Xiang; Li, Mingming; Cao, Dingning; Perroni-Scharf, Maxine; Mrzyglocki, Jeremy; Yamamoto, Takumi; Freeman, William; Mueller, Stefanie (13 April 2026). "Y-zipper: 3D Printing Flexible–Rigid Transition Mechanism for Rapid and Reversible Assembly". Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '26. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 1–17. doi:10.1145/3772318.3790723. ISBN 979-8-4007-2278-3.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)

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IndiaMART InterMESH Limited. "The History of the Zipper". Ansun Multitech (India) Limited. Ansun Multitech (India) Ltd. Archived from the original on 8 July 2012. Retrieved 1 March 2023.

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"Talon-Tailored Trousers". Esquire. Vol. 1, no. 1. Autumn 1933. p. ii. Retrieved 26 December 2025.
Edwards, Adam (2006). A short history of the Wellington boot. Hoddard & Stoughton. p. 75-77. ISBN 9780340921388. Retrieved 26 December 2025.

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Kevin J. McKenna (2009). The Proverbial "Pied Piper": A Festschrift Volume of Essays in Honor of Wolfgang Mieder on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday. Peter Lang. pp. 31–. ISBN 978-1-4331-0489-3.

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Li, Jiaji; Chang, Xiang; Li, Mingming; Cao, Dingning; Perroni-Scharf, Maxine; Mrzyglocki, Jeremy; Yamamoto, Takumi; Freeman, William; Mueller, Stefanie (13 April 2026). "Y-zipper: 3D Printing Flexible–Rigid Transition Mechanism for Rapid and Reversible Assembly". Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '26. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 1–17. doi:10.1145/3772318.3790723. ISBN 979-8-4007-2278-3.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)

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SUNDBACK GIDEON [US]. "Bibliographic data: DE216807 (C) ― 1909-12-04: Verschluss fuer Kleidungsstuecke jeder Art und fuer Gebrauchsgegenstaende, Bestehend aus an den Verschlusskanten des Kleidungsstueckes o.dgl. kettenartig angeordneten Olsen und Hakengliedern". Espace net Patent search (European Patent Office).^{[permanent dead link]}

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Benjamin Fulford (24 November 2003). "Zipping Up the World". Forbes. Retrieved 24 April 2012.

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US Patent 2191874 (Winterhalter)

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Liszewski, Andrew (16 October 2013). "I Have Seen the Future and It's a One-Handed Magnetic Zipper". Gizmodo. Retrieved 17 October 2013.

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Göldi, Wolfgang (2013). Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz, vol 12. Basel: Schwabe AG, Basel. pp. Winterhalter, Martin. ISBN 978-3-7965-1912-3.

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"Whitcomb Judson | Lemelson". lemelson.mit.edu. Retrieved 27 March 2025.

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Drysuits: Zippers, Seals, Valves and Maintenance Archived 29 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine, NJScuba.net. Illustrated dissection of a dry-suit zipper.

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Howe, Elias, Jr. "Improvement in fastenings for garments", U.S. Patent Number 8,540 (November 25, 1851).
Judson, Whitcomb L. "Shoe-fastening" U.S. Patent Number 504,037 (Filed: August 17, 1892; Issued: August 29, 1893).
Sundbäck, Gideon "Separable fastener" U.S. Patent Number 1,219,881 (Filed: August 27, 1914; Issued: March 20, 1917).

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Jonathan Watts (25 May 2005). "The tiger's teeth". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 April 2012.

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Arbenz, Arnouk. "Irrsinniges Genie". Unternehmerzeitung. Archived from the original on 29 August 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2018.

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Cooper, Wilbert (8 March 2013). "THE FIRST WILD ONE: THE GENESIS OF THE MOTORCYCLE JACKET". VICE. Retrieved 16 September 2014.

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IndiaMART InterMESH Limited. "The History of the Zipper". Ansun Multitech (India) Limited. Ansun Multitech (India) Ltd. Archived from the original on 8 July 2012. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
"Structure of Zipper". YKK Fastening Products Group. Ykkfastening.com. Archived from the original on 17 June 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
Arbenz, Arnouk. "Irrsinniges Genie". Unternehmerzeitung. Archived from the original on 29 August 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
Drysuits: Zippers, Seals, Valves and Maintenance Archived 29 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine, NJScuba.net. Illustrated dissection of a dry-suit zipper.
"Zipper Parts". ZipperSource. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
"COIL ZIP 1 - Coils not meshing behind a closing slider". Wilderness Equipment. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
"COIL ZIP 2 - The slider is 'frozen' on the coil zip and can't be moved". Wilderness Equipment. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2026.

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"COIL ZIP 1 - Coils not meshing behind a closing slider". Wilderness Equipment. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
"COIL ZIP 2 - The slider is 'frozen' on the coil zip and can't be moved". Wilderness Equipment. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2026.

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Francombe, Amy (19 October 2025). "The Zipper Is Getting Its First Major Upgrade in 100 Years". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 15 August 2026.

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Francombe, Amy (19 October 2025). "The Zipper Is Getting Its First Major Upgrade in 100 Years". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 15 August 2026.

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YKK (18 May 2022). "History of the Zipper". YKK Americas. Retrieved 27 March 2025.

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"Structure of Zipper". YKK Fastening Products Group. Ykkfastening.com. Archived from the original on 17 June 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2011.

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"Zipper Parts". ZipperSource. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 27 September 2013.

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