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This is a timeline of velcro and Georges de Mestral.
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Georges de Mestral's birth.
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George invented, designed, and patented a toy airplane!
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George graduates engineering school.
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George took his dog on a nature walk and when he returned he noticed that burs were sticking to his shirt and on his dog. He put one of the burs under a microscope and noticed that the hooks on the burs were sticking to the loops on his clothes. "Wink wink"
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After months of thought, George made the design of a fastening system that uses hooks and loops. He called it Velcro, coming from the words VELour and CROchet.
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George finalized the design and patented velcro!
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Velcro comes to America in Manchester, New Hampshire at a textile factory.
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Velcro hits $200,000,000,000 in sales!
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Velcro hits over 4,000,000,000 sales!
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Mestral unseccessfully tried to update velcro.
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This is the day that George de Mestral died.
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Velcro was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for inventing the "Velcro, Hook and Loop Fasteners!"
