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
Margaret Atwood Judson Rutgers University in 1966 however she returned to become the acting dean of the college until 1967. A chair at the university, the Margaret Atwood Judson Professor of History, is named after her. She was a founding member of the American Historical Association and remained a member for sixty one years. In December 1990, Judson received an Award for Scholarly Distinction from the Association. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1954. Judson died on March 23, 1991 in Piscataway, New Jersey. Margaret Atwood Judson Margaret Atwood Judson (November 5, 1899 – March 23, 1991) was an American historian and