The discovery of Velcro is one such fortunate accident . one summer day in 1948,a Swiss inventer named George de Mestral went for a hike with his dog. When they returned,they were covered in buss seed-sacs that cling to animal fur and clothes. Nature designed burrs to do this in order to spread seeds to new areas. De Mestral become curious about how these these burrs attached themselves to clothes and hair. He inspected one of the burrs from his pants under a microscope.