Word: mestral
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...Velcro 1941, by Swiss engineer George de Mestral, who noted how cockleburs stuck to his socks...
...Walking through a patch of woods one day in 1948, a Swiss named Georges de Mestral wondered what made burrs stick to his clothes, took some home to find out why. De Mestral not only found out the burrs' secret; he duplicated it with a nylon fastener that seems fair to make major changes in the U.S. garment industry...
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