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What would the world be without Velcro?
It's hard to think about Velcro as something with a birth date. But yes, there was a time, when Velcro did not exist. It was invented by as Swiss engineer in the 1940s. And then, just 50 years ago, he named the invention "Velcro," a combination of the French words "velour" and "crochet": velvet and hook. After 1978, Velcro's patent expired and other companies were able to start using the ingenuous invention. Today Velcro USA employees 600 workers.
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