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Prosaic or even dull they may be, but where would we all be without the zipper, Gideon Sundback's invention that plays such an important part in all our lives? So much so that Google have created their famous doodle to commemorate the 132nd anniversary of the Swedish American inventor's birth in Smaland, Sweden in 1880.

Having emigrated to the United States in 1905, he started work at the Universal Fastener Company in New Jersey and the 'separable fastener' was patented in 1917.