“Google Doodle” recognizes Meadville zipper pioneer

Anybody who’s visited Google today will notice a huge Zipper across the screen.  Today’s Google Doodle is in honor of the birthday of Gideon Sundback, a man recognized locally and elsewhere for revolutionizing the way the world puts on its pants.

The Swedish-American inventor would be celebrating his 132^nd birthday today.  Sundback was a key player in the development of the modern zipper, while working for a company that would eventually become the Meadville-based Talon Corporation, that put Crawford County on the map.

And in case anybody’s interested, you can visit Sundback’s grave.  It’s is just down the road… in Meadville’s Greendale Cemetary.