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The Burpee is named for a physiologist named Royal Huddleston Burpee. For his Ph.D. thesis at Columbia University in 1940, he invented the exercise as a way to assess the fitness of non-active adults.
Its amazing no one took advantage of the problem until 1948. George de Mestral, a Swiss engineer, returned from a walk one day in 1948 and found some cockleburs clinging to his cloth jacket.When de Mestral loosened them, he examined one under his microscope. The principle was simple.ascinating facts about the invention of Velcro by George de Mestral in 1948.