Whitcomb L. Judson He ultimately never saw much success in the "clasp-locker" as a fashion item during his lifetime. Judson made a "C-curity" clasp-locker fastener in 1905 which was an improved version of his previous patents. It tended to break open unexpectedly like the predecessors. Clothing manufacturers showed little interest in Judson's fastener perhaps because of this reason. An improved version of 1896 came with Judson made his invention to save people the trouble of buttoning and unbuttoning their shoes every day as shows in his wording in the patent application. He describes this in his patent U.S.P. 557,207 In 1913 the zipper
Olivia Judson Olivia Judson Olivia P. Judson (born 1970) is an evolutionary biologist and science writer. Judson is the daughter of science historian Horace Freeland Judson, and was a pupil of W. D. Hamilton. She graduated from Stanford University and gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford. Beginning in 1995 Judson worked for two years as a science writer for "The Economist" and she later joined Imperial College London, where she is now an honorary research fellow. In 1997, she wrote an "Economist" article named "Sex Is War!" which was awarded the Glaxo Wellcome Prize by the British