The zipper took 20 years to be accepted after its invention in 1893.

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Whitcomb Judson's original 'clasp locker' kept jamming. It wasn't until Gideon Sundback's 1913 redesign that zippers worked reliably. B.F. Goodrich coined the name 'zipper' in 1923.

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