I'm guessing that almost everyone listening to this podcast has within the last 24 hours used a zipper.

They are ubiquitous at this point and most people have never given them much thought.

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The zipper is an odd invention in that it really didn't solve a problem per se.

It's a fastening device and we already had fastening

devices for clothing before the invention of the zipper.

There were buttons, hooks, and ribbons, and they all did basically the same thing that

zippers do.

Moreover, the zipper really couldn't have been invented any earlier than it was.

As you'll see, an ancient Chinese or Roman zipper really wasn't something that could have happened given the state of technology at the time.

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