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The factory system developed in the late eighteenth century, chiefly due to the advances being made in the textile industry. With inventions such as the flying shuttle, the spinning jenny, and many others, the making of cloth became much faster, and could be done on a much wider scale .
The zipper took quite a time to make its mark. It was invented by Whitcomb Judson in 1891, not in its present form as a clothes fastener, but as a device to do up boots. It did not take off until 1918, when the U.S. Navy realized that Judson's invention would make an ideal fastener for flying suits. The name zipper, coined in 1926, clinched its success.