Cockleburs on Your Tennies
Kirt's Cogitations™ #133

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Cockleburs on Your Tennies

A Swiss engineer named George de Maestral was impressed with the way that cockleburs - a type of vegetation - would use thousands of tiny hooks to cling to anything with which they came into contact. He devised a product, using nylon, that replicated this natural phenomenon. The result, Velcro®, could be spun in any required thickness, would not rot, mold or naturally degrade. As a bonus, it was relatively inexpensive.

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Cockleburs on Your Tennies Kirt's Cogitations™ #133

Cockleburs on Your Tennies
Kirt's Cogitations™ #133