Levi Strauss & Co.

Invention: blue jeans Definition: noun / waist overalls, jeans, Levi's® jeans Function: Clothes, especially pants, that are usually close-fitting and created from the rugged cotton twill textile that is colored blue with indigo dye Patent: 139,121 (US) issued May 20, 1873 for Fastening Pocket-Openings Inventor: Jacob Davis (aka Jacob Youphes) Criteria: First to invent. First to patent. First practical. Birth: 1834 in Riga Latvia Death: 1908 in San Francisco, California Nationality: German Inventor: Levi Strauss (aka Loeb Strauss) Criteria: First to patent. First practical. Entrepreneur. Birth: February 26, 1829 in Buttenheim, Germany Death: September 27, 1902 in San Francisco, California Nationality: American (of German decent)