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- DIED. Georges de Mestral, 82, stick-to-itive Swiss inventor
- of Velcro; in Genolier, Switzerland. In 1941, after a walk in
- the woods near his Geneva home, the engineer observed that his
- wool socks and jacket and his dog's fur were covered with burrs.
- By 1948 he had found a way to duplicate the grasp of the burrs
- with nylon. Since then Velcro has been used in the making of
- countless items, from children's clothing to heart valves.
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