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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nature to solve 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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process by Tadeus Reichstein Glyphosate by Henri Martin Velcro by George de Mestral Coil Zip fastening invented by Martin Winterhalter Computer mouse:...
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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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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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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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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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Commugny (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
committed the murders that lead to absinthe being banned in Switzerland. George de Mestral inventor of Velcro lived and died in Commugny, where a road is named...
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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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parts of Mount Royal, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Outremont—St-Jean, Saint-Antoine—Westmount, and St. Lawrence—St. George ridings. In 1978, it was renamed...
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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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Aubonne (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
Ramuz (1878–1947), a French-speaking Swiss writer, studied in Aubonne Georges de Mestral (1907–1990), a Swiss electrical engineer who invented the hook and...
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Deaths in February 1990 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
American painter and musician, father of Muhammad Ali, heart attack. George de Mestral, 82, Swiss electrical engineer and inventor of velcro. Xu Deheng,...
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Mandrin (1962 film) (category Films scored by Georges Van Parys)
Court-Toujours Jess Hahn as Bertrand le braco Armand Mestral as Sigismond de Moret Albert Rémy as Grain de sel André Versini as Le marquis d'Ulrich Gil Baladou...
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Werner Nachtigall (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Velcro...represents highly successful bioemulation: its inventor Georges DeMestral, deliberately worked from the seed barbs of cocklebur and burdock...
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Morgan the Pirate (film) (category Films directed by Andre de Toth)
Alfonsi as Doña María Armand Mestral as François l'Olonnais Giulio Bosetti as Sir Thomas Modyford Angelo Zanolli as David George Ardisson as Walter Morgan...
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Jacques-Henry Rys and lyrics by Jacques Larue [fr], starred the bass Armand Mestral (who alternated with Michel Dens) in the role of Jim Bullit, the tenor...
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nuit, music by Louis Gasté, recorded among others by Line Renaud, Armand Mestral, from Perle du Bengal, opérette "féérique et nautique", 1954 birth certificate...
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His Father's Portrait (redirect from Le Portrait de son père)
and are his two biggest hits. The song Le Beau Pedro performed by Armand Mestral was written by Henri Betti (music) and Jean Nohain (lyrics) for the film...
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