Gideon Sundback

We'll have menu options for those who wish to add soda or perhaps some french fries to their meals.

In the future, we might even add breakfast options." Be like these guys: Alfred Nobel, inventor of the dynamite, Sweden, 1866; Gideon Sundback, creator of the modern zipper, or separable fastener as it was called back in the days, Sweden, 1917; Erik Wallenberg, originator of Tetra Pak, Sweden, 1952.

The Swedes have truly had a huge impact on the lives of people worldwide, as you can see.

Honorable mentions goes to a few other innovations, maybe not quite as important.

We see this so clearly with the zipper.

Gideon Sundback, a Swedish-American electrical engineer, spent years perfecting the modern zipper.

By 1913, he had solved the mechanical issues that made earlier versions jam or pop open.

He increased the number of interlocking teeth, created the slider we recognize today.