{"id":4404,"date":"2026-04-29T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4404"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:41:18","slug":"zipper-patented-1913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4404","title":{"rendered":"Zipper Was Patented by Gideon Sundback of Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1913"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26416\" style=\"width: 188px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26416\" class=\"wp-image-26416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Zipper-Patent-204x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"262\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zipper Patent<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Zipper was patented by Gideon Sundback of Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1913<\/strong>. However, it was not called a zipper until 1922 when the B. F. Goodrich Company used the term to describe fasteners on its galoshes. Prior to 1922, it was called a &#8220;separable fastener.&#8221; Idea: Children could make a list of non-clothing items that have zippers. For example, some school children&#8217;s binders have zippers. They could view the patent at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US1060378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zipper Patent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zipper was patented by Gideon Sundback of Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1913. However, it was not called a zipper until 1922 when the B. F. Goodrich Company used the term to describe fasteners on its galoshes. Prior to 1922, it was called a &#8220;separable fastener.&#8221; Idea: Children could make a list of non-clothing items that <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4404' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5289,5503,2777,2775,2776,2679,1759,2774],"class_list":["post-4404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5289","tag-april-29","tag-b-f-goodrich-company","tag-gideon-sundback","tag-hoboken-new-jersey","tag-invention","tag-patent","tag-zipper","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4404"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29460,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions\/29460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}