Hair-Gutting by Electricity.
The scissors must go. Not only the scissors, but that lather and more elaborate piece of mechanicism with which a ski led tonsorial artist removes the redundant crop of the human head, much after the fashion of the horse-clipper. Electricity has eclipsed, and will supersede, these things. Need we say it, the idea comes from America. It is expressed as follows :-— The apparatus to perform this operation consists simply of platinum wire stretched over a comb. By pressing a button in the handle of the comb current is applied to the wire and it is heated to a white heat. The comb is passed through the haii*, and as the wire comes in contact with the hair it is burned off, the end of each hair being cauterised as out, which process prevents the loss of the oily substance with which the air is filled. The ap» paratus is connected by flexible cord and attachment plug to a lamp socket, and can be used by any barber of ordinary skill. ! .
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Manawatu Herald, 5 September 1895, Page 3
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173Hair-Gutting by Electricity. Manawatu Herald, 5 September 1895, Page 3
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