biography
| name: |
de Mestral, Georges
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pronunciation:
[duh mestral]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1907–90)
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| biography:
| Swiss engineer who invented Velcro fastening. After a shooting trip in 1948 his clothes had picked up a number of burrs, which he later studied under a microscope. He saw the possibility of making a fastener based on the same principle of hundreds of tiny hooks, and eventually succeeded, producing the now familiar strips of nylon in 1956. |
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