The zipper has virtually been unchanged ever since it debuted over a century ago: two interlocking rows of metal or plastic teeth, a sliding fastener, and the fabric tape that constitutes the ...

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Few inventions reach such widespread use as the zipper. Odds are, you’re wearing a zippered garment right now. And yet—in its over 100-year-old history—it has received no significant updates. Until a ...

For over a century, the basic zipper design has remained largely unchanged: interlocking teeth flanked by fabric tape. However, YKK, the Japanese company responsible for producing nearly half of the ...

For more than a century, the zipper has stayed more or less the same: two interlocking rows of teeth, a sliding pull, and the fabric tape that holds it together. It’s one of those inventions that ...

“Basically, YKK is a company that is just in the business of keeping things together,” said journalist Joshua Hunt. “It's really rolled with the punches in terms of the various shapes that ...

You can save hundreds—if not thousands—of dollars on technical outdoor gear if you master just one simple aspect of gear maintenance: zipper care. Even just doing the bare minimum to maintain your ...

TOKYO -- A ruling by a U.S. trade court finding much of President Donald Trump's tariff regime illegal, turning a spotlight on the constitutional separation of powers, hearkens back to a case five ...