Telegraph inventor Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872) was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts on April 27th, 1791 and developed the idea of an electromagnetic telegraph in the 1830's and tapped out his first message "What hath God wrought?" in 1844 on the first telegraph line, running from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore.
From the earliest electronic communication to today’s distractions of the smart phones, the first electronic message sent, “What hath God wrought?”, is as appropriate today as when first transmitted.
Celebrate with GreenStyle your quiet children in the back seat of the car, a teenager you never see, the idiot still stopped at the green light and Samuel Morse’s birthday!
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The patent for the "Separable Fastener" was issued in 1917 to Gideon Sundback, who also created the manufacturing machine for the new device. The "S-L" or "scrapless" machine took a special Y-shaped wire and cut scoops from it, then punched the scoop dimple and nib, and clamped each scoop on a cloth tape to produce a continuous zipper chain.
The popular North American term zipper came from the B. F. Goodrich Company in 1923. The company opted to use Gideon Sundback's fastener on a new type of rubber boots and referred to it as the zipper, and the name stuck. The two chief uses of the zipper in its early years were for closing boots and tobacco pouches. Zippers began being used for clothing in 1925 by Schott NYC on leather jackets.
In the 1930s, a sales campaign began for children's clothing featuring zippers. The campaign praised zippers for promoting self-reliance in young children by making it possible for them to dress themselves. The zipper beat the button in 1937 in the "Battle of the Fly", after French fashion designers raved over zippers in men's trousers. Esquire declared the zipper the "Newest Tailoring Idea for Men" and among the zippered fly's many virtues was that it would exclude "The Possibility of Unintentional and Embarrassing Disarray."
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