Found in various types of clothes including trousers, shorts as well as over coats, the zipper plays a vital role despite in today’s world.

Elias Howe who invented the sewing machine bagged a government grant in the year1851 for a ‘perfunctory, permanent attire closure.’ After a period of 45 years, Mr. Whitcomb Judson commercialized a ‘Clasp Locker’ a tool resembling the 1851 Howe copyright. Being former to promote gave Whitcomb the acclaim of being the ‘Inventor of the Zipper’. But, his 1893 government grant did not make use of the word zipper.