Not all lucky accidents have changed the way we live in dramatic wys. Some forunate accidents have just made life a little more convenient. But many of these conven iences have become such a part of our our eveyday lives that we've come to take them for ganted
The discovery of velcer such fortu
Fortunate accident. one summer day summer day in 1948, a swiss inventor named geor mesmed mestral went -see
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George de mestral went a hike with his dog. When they retuned, they were covered in burrs-seed-sacs that cling to animal fur and clothes. Nature designed burrs to do this in order to spread seed to new areas. De mestral become curious about how these 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 ublquitous. It can be found on everything from shoes to wallets to blood pressure cuffs to space shuttles.