Burdock: Inspiration for Tolstoy and Velcro

Burdock Arctium lappa and other species Leo Tolstoy was pretty impressed with the hardiness of burdock. George de Mestral, a Swiss inventor, also found inspiration in burdock. Fascinated with how the burs always stuck to his clothes, he inspected them under a microscope, discovering the hook-and-loop arrangement of the bristles. Inspired by the plants anatomy,…

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