Whitcomb L. Judson Whitcomb L. Judson Whitcomb L. Judson (March 7, 1846 – December 7, 1909) was an American machine salesman, mechanical engineer and inventor. Judson invented the zipper in the 1890s. Judson was born in Chicago, Illinois. According to the 1860 census, he lived in Illinois, and served in the Union army. He enlisted in 1861 at Oneida, Illinois in the Forty-Second Illinois Cavalry. Judson attended Knox College in his hometown Galesburg, Illinois. He was found in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1886. In 1886 and 1887 the Minneapolis city directory identifies Judson as a "traveling agent" — a traveling salesman working probably for
Bruce Judson in online media including "The Business Insider" and "The Huffington Post". As of December 2015, Judson was a Senior Adviser to Tern Plc. In 2017, Judson started a firm called Telehealthworks to provide consulting services to employers looking to incorporate telehealth into their employee benefit plans, and subsequently joined First Stop Health, a telemedicine firm, as Vice President of Marketing. Bruce Judson Bruce Judson (born 1958 in New York City) is an American author and public policy analyst. Judson attended Dartmouth College and received a bachelor's degree in Policy Studies in 1980, where he met the environmentalist Donella Meadows. In