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  2. King C. Gillette - Wikipedia

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    Patent drawing of the razor. King Camp Gillette (January 5, 1855 – July 9, 1932) was an American businessman who invented a bestselling safety razor. [1] Gillette's innovation was the thin, inexpensive, disposable blade of stamped steel. [2]

  3. Razor - Wikipedia

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    Kinds of razors include straight razors, safety razors, disposable razors, and electric razors. While the razor has been in existence since before the Bronze Age (the oldest razor-like object has been dated to 18,000 BC [2]), the most common types of razors currently used are the safety razor and the electric razor.

  4. Safety razor - Wikipedia

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    Safety razors were popularized in the 1900s by King Camp Gillette's invention, the double-edge safety razor. While other safety razors of the time used blades that required stropping before use and after a time had to be honed by a cutler, Gillette's razor used a disposable blade with two sharpened edges.

  5. Gillette - Wikipedia

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    Gillette is an American brand of safety razors and other personal care products including shaving supplies, owned by the multi-national corporation Procter & Gamble (P&G). ). Based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, it was owned by The Gillette Company, a supplier of products under various brands until that company merged into P&G i

  6. Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) - Wikipedia

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    1901 Safety razor (disposable) A safety razor protects the skin from all but the edge of the blade while shaving skin. King Camp Gillette, a traveling hardware salesman of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, invented the double-edged, disposable safety razor attached to a re-usable razor handle. Beforehand, dull razors were taken to barbers for sharpening.

  7. Why Bic, the maker of ballpoint pens and shaving sticks ... - AOL

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    We are No. 1 or No. 2 in the disposable razor segment, depending on the market. We launch exciting new products or update them. We were the first to change the handle of female razors to something ...

  8. Household Products That Are a Complete Waste of Money

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    K-Cups. Price: $29 for 48 Like old-school film cameras and razors with disposable blades, cup-based coffee machines popularized by Keurig require a big purchase once, but far more necessary re-ups ...

  9. William Emery Nickerson - Wikipedia

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    Safety razor innovations William Emery Nickerson (November 5, 1853 – June 5, 1930) was an American engineer and inventor. He worked with King C. Gillette at the start of the Gillette Company and was later elected to Gillette's board of directors.