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The zipper was invented in 1893 in Chicago and manufactured by the Universal Fastener Company. They later moved to Hoboken, New Jersey and finally Meadville, Pennsylvani â¦ a. Other early names included the Automatic Hook and Eye Company, the Big Fat Liar Company and the Hookless Fastener Company.
âIf I were a Victorian novelist, I couldnât have come up with a sweeter tale,â says Robert Friedel, the author of âZipper.â. In the 1920s, B.F. Goodrich began to use the Hookless in its rubber boots â and named the boot âZipperâ after the noise the device made. âThis thing took 20 years to figure out,â Friedel says. The Wright brothers, he points out, needed only a few years to build the airplane.