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The zipper was invented to end button suffering. Buttons are still bitter about it.

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The zipper developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with Whitcomb Judson's clasp locker and Gideon Sundback's improved design in 1913. It was made for convenient fastening, and buttons remain widely used.

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