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    King Camp Gillette (January 5, 1855 – July 9, 1932) was an American businessman who invented a bestselling safety razor. Gillette's innovation was the...
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  • retained by P&G. The Gillette company and brand originate from the late 19th century when salesman and inventor King Camp Gillette came up with the idea...
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    credited to King Camp Gillette, the inventor of the safety razor, Gillette did not in fact follow this model. The legend about Gillette is that he realized...
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    predated the patent). Safety razors were popularized in the 1900s by King Camp Gillette's invention, the double-edge safety razor. While other safety razors...
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  • Utopian social planning, written by King Camp Gillette and first published in 1894. The book details Gillette's theory that replacing competitive corporations...
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    books include a 2001 book about the inventor of the disposable razor, King Camp Gillette, Suspicious Packages and Extendable Arms, a collection of his writing...
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    for the brand, and the sales force also included King Camp Gillette, who went on to create the Gillette safety razor and the razor and blades business model...
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  • Walther Müller George Foreman Grill – George Foreman Gillette safety razor – King Camp Gillette Gladstone bag – William Ewart Gladstone Glauber's salt...
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    for a smoother and cleaner shave. In 1901, the American inventor King Camp Gillette, with the assistance of William Nickerson, submitted a patent for...
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    After a time, the blade needed to be honed by a cutler. In 1895, King Camp Gillette invented the double-edged safety razor, with cheap disposable blades...
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  • Foucault Wollaston Medal for Geology: Henry De la Beche January 5 – King Camp Gillette (died 1932), American inventor. January 21 – John Browning (died 1926)...
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    for rabies without receiving a vaccine King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor and founder of the Gillette Company Don Gorske, Big Mac enthusiast...
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  • Karl-Hermann Geib (1908–1949), Germany / USSR – Girdler sulfide process King Camp Gillette (1855-1932), U.S. – Double-edge safety razor and blade Hans Wilhelm...
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  • Gilbert and Sullivan. Member of Lodge St Machar No. 54, Aberdeen. King Camp Gillette, American businessman Frank Gillmore, actor and president of Actor's...
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    mansion to King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor, who leased the estate to a military academy at the end of World War I. In 1921, Gillette sold the...
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  • Major Taylor (born 1878), African American racing cyclist. July 9 – King Camp Gillette (born 1855), American inventor. July 14 – Fran Jesenko (born 1875)...
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    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...
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  • movement (surname backwards more or less) King Camp Gillette, American inventor and businessman – Gillette Terry Gilliam, American animator and film director...
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  • Catholic nun; later canonized (d. 1878) 1855 – King Camp Gillette, American businessman, founded the Gillette Company (d. 1932) 1864 – Bob Caruthers, American...
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  • Drew, Jr., American actor (b. 1853) 1932 – King Camp Gillette, American businessman, founded the Gillette Company (b. 1855) 1935 – Daniel Edward Howard...
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  • essential part of the modern economy 18 Feb 2017 17 Disposable razor King Camp Gillette created the disposable razor. But his influence extends beyond shaving...
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    Company Jean-Louis Gassée (born 1944), founder of Be Inc. King Camp Gillette, founder of the Gillette Safety Razor Company Stephen Girard (1750–1831), banker...
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  • the Gillette Ranch in 1928 or 1929 featuring his stonework. In the early 1920s, Frank Knapp had helped King Gillette, the son of King Camp Gillette of...
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  • Caleb Bradham Peter Cooper Hewitt William Crompton Thomas Edison King Camp Gillette Charles Goodyear William S. Harley Robert Hoe Christopher Jones Samuel...
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    original on June 6, 2023. Retrieved January 4, 2020. "NIHF Inductee King Camp Gillette Invented the Safety Razor". www.invent.org. June 4, 2024. Archived...
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    King Camp Gillette (1911), oil painting by Jean Mannheim in the National Portrait Gallery...
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    in the 1920s. Taylor was inspired to run for political office by King Camp Gillette's book The People's Corporation and Stuart Chase's 1932 book A New...
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    Gillette Castle State Park straddles the towns of East Haddam and Lyme, Connecticut in the United States, sitting high above the Connecticut River. The...
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  • decapitating his mother in the original film. Jason (Steven Dash and Warrington Gillette) returns to Crystal Lake, living there as a hermit and guarding it from...
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    her. In Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981), Jason (Steve Daskewisz/Warrington Gillette) is revealed to be alive and fully grown. After killing Alice Hardy, Jason...
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