The discovery of Velcro is one such fortunate accident.One summer day in 1948, a Swiss inventor named George de Mestral went for hike with his dog. When they returned,they were covered in burrs-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 became curious about how these burrs attached themselves to clothes and hair. He inspected one of the burrs from his pants under a microscope.He saw that it had countless tiny hooks that clung to the tiny loops in the fabric of his pants. This gave him the idea to design a new kind of fastener.The fastener would be made of two nylon strips,one side with stiff hooks like the burrs and the other side with loops like the fabric of his pants. His invention,Velcro,has since become ubiquitous.It can be found on everything from shoes to blood pressure cuffs to space shuttles. to design a new kind of fastener. The fastener would be made of two nylon strips' one side with stiff hooks like the burrs and the other side with loops like the fabric of his pants. His invention' velcro' has since become ubiquitous. It can be found on everything from shoes to wallets to blood pressure cuffs to space shuttles.