Google Doodle celebrates the Zip man

What would the world be without zips?!


So Google decided to celebrate the inventor of the ubiquitous fastener. The doodle (as seen above) is a zipper that runs down the middle of its homepage. The zip can be pulled (dragged) down to reveal a search result page for Gideon Sundback whose birthday is today. He was born in 1880


According to Guardian.co.uk, “Before Sundback’s intervention, the idea for a fastener based on interlocking teeth had circulated among engineers for more than 20 years but no one had perfected it.”