When did gideon sundback live?

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1. amomipais82
   

   Hi,
   Otto Frederick Gideon Sundbäck (April 24, 1880 – June 21, 1954) was a Swedish-American electrical engineer and inventor.
   
   Sundbäck made several advances in the development of the zipper between 1906 and 1914, while working for companies that later evolved into Talon, Inc. He built upon the previous work of other engineers such as Elias Howe, Max Wolff, and Whitcomb Judson. Gideon Sundback was hired to work for the Universal Fastener Company. Good design skills and a marriage to Elvira Aronson, daughter of the plant-manager Peter Aronsson led Sundbäck to the position of head designer at Universal. He was responsible for improving the "Judson C-curity Fastener". He increased the number of fastening elements from four per inch to ten or eleven had two facing-rows of teeth that pulled into a single piece by the slider, and increased the opening for the teeth guided by the slider. The patent for the "Separable Fastener" was issued in 1917.[1]
   
   The name zipper was created by B.F. Goodrich who used the device on their new boots. Initially, boots and tobacco pouches were the primary use for zippers; it took another twenty years before they caught on in the fashion industry. The zipper beat the button in 1937 for the usage of the "fly" in trousers.[2]
   
   Sundbäck was later the president of Lightning Fastener Company, which was based in St Catharines, Ontario. This company was an early manufacturer of zipper. Sundbäck also created the manufacturing machine for the new zipper. Sundbäck is interred at Greendale Cemetery in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
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2. Guest1370
   

   he lived from april 24 1880 till june 21 1954

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