Invented by the Swiss George de Mestral (1907-1990), it was patented in 1955. While walking his dog one evening, he bacame annoyed by the burrs that stuck tenaciously to his clothes and dog. He examined them under a microscope and found the myriad hooks of the burr caught on the loops of his wool sock. He realized that if he could replicate this method of fastening, it would be superior to the zipper. After eight years of trial and error, he finally had an automated manufacturing process that could make the loops at the required 300-per-square-inch density.
And designers can appreciate that velcro is 300 dpi. haha!
That paragraph was taken from everything2.com. Can you imagine? EIGHT years of developing it. “Yeah, yeah honey, I’ll be right down for dinner, lemme finish this one hook here…”
This post was inspired by an IM conversation with erik. We found out that Klettverschlu is german for velcro. This is one case that an American word is more bad a55 than a german word. Velcro sounds way cooler than Klettverschlu .
And “I Love You” sounds way cooler than “Ich Lieben” [my spelling notwithstanding”>
Ich liebe dich now get ready for some spit! Here’s “i love you” in a bijillion languages: http://internist.nwy.at/love.html
it’s amazing how long many of these phrases are
it’s interesting what lanuages have it down to one word: Arabic, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Farsi, Greenlandic, Japanese, Kiswahili, Korean, Lebanese, Luo, Mohawk, Moroccan, Ndebele, Swahili, Syrian/Lebanese, Zulu, Zuni
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeelllllllllcccccccccccccccccccrrrrrrrrrroooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. they should spell “velcro” like the sound of velcro.
because that only makes sense.
yea and when someone spells it, “vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeelllllllllccccccccccccccccccrrrrrrrrrroooooooooooooooooooooooooooo” I will tell them that they are missing another “c”.
When you say that word out loud, there should be more “c” and “r”. Ripping velcro doesn’t really make a “o” sound.