FORTUNE FROM FASTENERS
Colonel Lewis Walker, who made an enormous fortune from the zip fastener, died recently at the age of 82 at Meadville, Pennsylvania. He, first saw the bookless' fastener, which was later to become an article of everyday use, at the .1893 - World's Fair at Chicago, where the inventor was vainly seeking funds to market his device. It was not until twenty years later, however, that Colonel Walker finally started manufacture in a tiny factory, employing fewer than 20 hands. Today the company has 4000 employees with numerous factories in various cities.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1938, Page 20
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94FORTUNE FROM FASTENERS Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1938, Page 20
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