Dr. Steven Novella
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They're not technically tea.
You have to call them herbal tea.
But Hanway also lived into his 70s and never married.
And looking at the picture of him holding an umbrella, I could kind of guess why.
Whoa.
Yeah.
So I think it was just an out-there kind of guy.
He was like, I'm going to use an umbrella.
Yeah.
All right.
Which means that Swedish-American electrical engineer Gideon Sundback perfected the zipper revolutionizing modern apparel is science.
This guy did invent the zipper.
Um, he made it into a functional piece of apparel.
He got it to work.
You know what I mean?
Um, he perfected it.
Not that he wasn't the first one with the idea, but nobody can make it really work before he did.
Um, so he's credited with basically inventing the zipper.
Okay.
Credited with the development of the zipper.