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  • George de Mestral ((1907-06-19)19 June 1907 – (1990-02-08)8 February 1990) was a Swiss electrical engineer who invented the hook and loop fastener which...
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  • Mestral may refer to: Armand Mestral (1917–2000), French actor and singer George de Mestral (1907–1990), Swiss electrical engineer and inventor of the...
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  • electrical engineer George de Mestral in the 1950s. It is the original manufacturer of hook-and-loop fasteners, which de Mestral invented. Swiss electrical...
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    melted the candy in his pocket. The Velcro hook-and-loop fastener. George de Mestral came up with the idea after a bird hunting trip when he viewed cockleburs...
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    original hook-and-loop fastener was conceived in 1941 by Swiss engineer George de Mestral, which he named velcro. The idea came to him one day after returning...
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    After taking his dog for a walk one day in the late 1940s (1948), George de Mestral, a Swiss inventor, became curious about the seeds of the burdock plant...
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  • the most famous example of biomimetics. In 1948, the Swiss engineer George de Mestral was cleaning his dog of burrs picked up on a walk when he realized...
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    purpose of solving complex human problems. (Ex: velcro, designed after George de Mestral noticed how easily burs stuck to a dog's hair.) Bioelectrical engineering...
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  • she liked the episode. J. Paul Boehmer played Mestral, the character was named after George de Mestral, the inventor of Velcro. Boehmer said that as an...
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  • process by Tadeus Reichstein Glyphosate by Henri Martin Velcro by George de Mestral Computer mouse by René Sommer, co-inventor Smaky by Jean-Daniel Nicoud...
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  • pyrocollodion Richard B. Merrill (1949–2008), U.S. – Foveon X3 sensor George de Mestral (1907–1990), Switzerland – Velcro Robert Metcalfe (born 1946), U.S...
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  • original on May 20, 2020. Retrieved January 4, 2020. "NIHF Inductee George De Mestral and Velcro Fasteners". www.invent.org. April 6, 2024. Archived from...
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    team principal of Scuderia Ferrari) Aart de Geus (chairman, founder and CEO of Synopsys) George de Mestral (electrical engineer, inventor of Velcro)...
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  • Kingdom patent for his design of hovercraft. Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral is granted a patent for the Velcro fabric hook-and-loop fastener....
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    Gabriel-Henri de Mestral, then Lord of Pampigny. The castle took the name of Mestral, and among the successive owners, the engineer Georges de Mestral, inventor...
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  • Canadians in the late 1960s. Patented in 1955 by Swiss engineer, George de Mestral, velcro, a two sided fastening technology based on hooks and loops...
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  • carpenter (d. 1997) Clarence Wiseman, Salvation Army general (d. 1985) George de Mestral, Swiss inventor (d. 1990) June 22 – Wesley E. Brown, American district...
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  • the thyroid. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a pioneer in near-death studies Georges de Mestral, inventor of Velcro Friedrich Miescher, discovered Nucleic acid, DNA...
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    Moulin Rouge (redirect from Jardin de Paris)
    La Chaste Suzanne (1963), directed by Luis César Amadori – with Armand Mestral, Noël Roquevert and Frédéric Duvallès – Spain/France Moulin Rouge! (2001)...
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  • Lord Blackwood Geneviève Casile as Marie-Catherine Armand Mestral as el capità Hans George Rigaud as French Admiral Gérard Tichy as Kernan Alberto Cevenini...
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