Velcro® being pulled apart
Nikon SMZ1500 stereomicroscope • Spot Insight camera • episcopic ring illumination • 2005
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Velcro® being pulled apart
Nikon SMZ1500 stereomicroscope • Spot Insight camera • episcopic ring illumination • 2005
#nikonsmallworld #microscopy #velcro #biomimicry #photography
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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