Safety Razor Was Invented Through Man’s Necessity
A young salesman who was not doing very well wondered if he could not invent something that would make his fortune. A friend suggested: “Why don’t you devise something people will have to keep on buying fi'offi you as long' as they live?" “Th&t’s it!” the young man agreed. “A perishable- necessity!” One morning he was shaving himself. The razor was dull, hi§ beard tough. As he painfully s&i'aped his face he was struck with a sudden thought: “Why not, invent an improved razor? Why not a razor with a removable, replaceable blade?” King Camp Gillette had discovered his perishable necessity! He hastily drew a sketch of a blade and a blade-holder, and then rushed out to an ironmonger to procure steel tape, and file with which to make it. In this way was the safety razor brought into being.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 83, 9 January 1950, Page 8
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147Safety Razor Was Invented Through Man’s Necessity Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 83, 9 January 1950, Page 8
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