Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Zipper

  • Gideon Sundback -- the man who did not invent the zipper but did perfect it -- is the recipient today of a giant, interactive Google Doodle zipper.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • Margaret Brennan and Alix Steele report on todays top tending Twitter topics. They speak on Bloomberg Televisions InBusiness With Margaret Brennan.
  • (Businessweek)
  • Googles Doodle pays homage to Swedish electrical engineer turned zipper inventor Gideon Sundback. Except, Sundback didnt invent the zipper. He invented the Hookless No. 1 in 1914.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • SAN FRANCISCO - Google dedicated a doodle Tuesday to the Swedish-American inventor of the modern zipper, Gideon Sundback, on what would have been his 132nd birthday.
  • (The Vancouver Sun)
  • Steven Zipperstein is a lawyer who has done it all: the recently retired general counsel of Verizon Wireless has worked in private practice, at the U.S.
  • (Law.com)
  • A senior British detective said Tuesday that specks of another persons DNA were found on the zipper and lock of a sports bag that contained the body of a U.K. codebreaker, casting doubt on theories the young spy climbed into the bag himself as part of a sex game.
  • (Independent Online)
  • You may notice a zipper going through your Google page today and the search engine has a reason. They found a unique way to celebrate the life of Swedish-American electrical engineer Gideon Sundbäck who helped invent the zipper.
  • (Wellsville Daily Reporter)
  • (Newser) – Police investigators found tiny traces of another persons DNA on the zipper and lock of the sports bag that MI6 spy Gareth Williams was found dead in, a detective told the inquest investigating Williams death today.
  • (Newser)
  • CBC News Community team, from left to right: Andrew Yates, Andrea Lee-Greenberg, Lauren ONeil, John Bowman If youre part of the CBC News community, youre likely to meet one of us: were the folks working to produce and promote your stories.
  • (CBC)

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