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Whitcomb Judson invented a metal zipper with locking teeth in 1890. He patented the device in 1893 and exhibited it at the Chicago World's Fair the same year. Unfortunately, it did not catch on until after his death when it was improved upon by a Swedish-American engineer, Gideon Sundbach.

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