Making Your Mind Up - Bucks Fizz - Eurovision Song Contest winners 1981 UK 🇬🇧 4/4/81
Cheryl Baker returned from the ‘Bad Old Days’ of Song for Europe 1980 to ‘The Main Event’ a year later winning the #Eurovision Song Contest with Bucks Fizz for the United Kingdom in Dublin on 4th April 1981 - 45 years ago today! Don’t let your indecision, take you from behind #velcro #UK 🇬🇧 🥇 🍾
Swiss Patent No. 295638 for a "Dispositif d’accrochage", the hook-and-loop fastener, commonly known as Velcro.
Velcro loops. Image Credit: Alexander Klink, CC BY 3.0.
1/3 On this day in 1954, Velcro S.A. received Swiss Patent No. 295638 for a “Dispositif d’accrochage”, the hook-and-loop fastener invented by Swiss engineer George de Mestral and later marketed under the brand name Velcro.
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💡 C4IP is recognizing George de Mestral, whose #invention of #Velcro fasteners has become an integral part of products from clothing to spaceships.
He conceived the idea for the fastener after noticing burrs clinging to his clothes and his dog's fur, then studying the burrs under a microscope.
