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• Levi Strauss Patents Iconic Metal Rivet for Reinforcing Pants Pockets (1873) 20 May 2013
  If you are wearing blue jeans, chances are a version of tailor Jacob Davis's invention is hugging your hips right now. Davis did not invent jeans—that was the more famous Levi Strauss—but he did invent one crucial component: the copper rivets that reinforce the corners of the pockets, now ubiquitous on denim pants. Because Davis did not have the money t […]