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ویتکامب ال. Whitcomb L. Judson was an American inventor from Chicago. He was the first to invent functional zippers, and his method, which is to lock teeth together, is still used today to make zippers. Zippers were originally called “clamp-free fasteners”; These original zippers were redesigned to be reliable.