Velcro is the brand name of the first commercially marketed fabric hook-and-loop fastener,[1] invented in 1948 by the Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral. De Mestral patented Velcro in 1955, subsequently refining and developing its practical manufacture until its commercial introduction in the late 1950s
It’s my understanding that the idea for Velcro came from a type of weed seed that sticks to clothing or fur.
Velcro?hmm...yes....it was brought to earth, at Carbon Creek PA, in 1957 aboard a Vulcan spacecraft and the patent sold to earth investers by ‘Mestral’, T’pols great grandmother.
Live long and prosper.
oooops it was T’mir who was T’pol’s forebear. Mestril was a crewman on the Vulcan ship, who stayed on earth after the rest were rescued.