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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.
View the original 1917 Sundback patent for the Separable Fastener. The popular 'zipper' name came from the B. F. Goodrich Company, when they decided to use Gideon's fastener on a new type of rubber boots or galoshes and renamed the device the zipper, the name that lasted.