George de Mestral's Life
George de Mastral was born in 1908 in a small town near Lausanne, Switzerland. From the beginning Mestral loved being outdoors and inventing. He was especially interested in tinkering with machines and toys. By the age of twelve, he had designed and built a toy airplane! Before he invented Velcro, he spent much time working in a machine shop of a Swiss engineering company. He died on February 8, 1990 at the age of 82.