Georges de Mestral was born June 19th 1907. George loved the outdoors; that’s why he was a Swiss engineer and an outdoorsman. George loved Mother Nature; his hobby was inventing stuff. He died February 8th 1990. 
     When he was a kid he got his 1st patent when he was 12 years old. He invented Velcro in the 1900s. Velcro was used for many things like shoes, backpacks, jackets, wallets, watchbands, and children toys. 
     He came up with the idea of Velcro when he was walking in the woods when burdocks stuck to his pants so he thought that maybe he could make a fastener that stuck as well as the burrs did. To make his invention it took him more than a decade. To make it he needed 2 nylon strips and on one there are thousands little loops and on the other one is thousands of little hooks! He got help from a weaver in textile plant in France. He helped found Velcro industries  which exclusively sold the fasteners until 1978, when the patent for Velcro expired.      
     He patented Velcro in 1955. Today Velcro is a multi-million dollar industry. He was selling more than sixty million yards of Velcro per year. Most of you don’t know Velcro was used for many things like it helped hold a human heart together during the first artificial heart surgery.