RE: Velcro Inventor

["Gary Lehmann" <hqr@cox.net>]

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa091297.htm
Might have made some money--
Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: mark sottilaro [mailto:zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 10:05 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Velcro

<snip>

The man who invented Velcro never made a dime off the
patent.  It wasn't until his patent expired that nylon
was invented and a suitable material to make velcro
existed.  I saw that on tv.

Mark