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 guest bloggers filled in for Judson while she worked on a new book, "Dinosaur Eggs for Breakfast", and she then had been on a "sabbatical" from blogging beginning June 29, 2010. In 2009, she appeared in an episode of PBS's "Nova" called "What Darwin Never Knew" which discussed DNA connections to evolution. Judson has supported a possible future campaign to completely wipe out a species of mosquito which carries dengue fever. 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