Engineer George de Mestral was walking his dogs in the meadows of the Swiss Alps. When they returned home, he noticed that burr seed pods were stuck on his dogs’ fur! He even found some stuck to his ...

De Mestral was born in 1907 in the castle of Saint-Saphorin-sur-Morges, the family estate in the wine region of Lake Geneva near Lausanne. As a boy, de Mestral showed an inventive mind ...