King C. Gillette

King Camp Gillette ( born January 5, 1855 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, † July 9, 1932 in Los Angeles ) was an American inventor, known for the invention of Einwegrasierklinge.

Life

King Gillette was many years as a commercial traveler on the go. At the age of 40 years it was a spontaneous idea in the morning shave: He sketched a razor with a blade that you did not have to grind. He used a thin piece of steel that is polished on both sides and even can be turned to it then throw it away and buy a new one.

Gillette had, like his role model William Painter, inventor of the crown cap, a disposable article of daily use invented. It took another six years, until 1901, he had found a partner who was able to produce the imagined by him razor blades. In the same year he founded The Gillette Company, which began production in 1903. In the first year 168 blades were sold, a year later, there were already 90,000 razors and 123,000 blades.

1917 gave the U.S. government with an order of 36 million razor blades for the fighting in the First World War American soldiers to boost business.

Gillette was in June 1901, a member of the Federation of Freemasons, he was alternately the boxes Adelphi Lodge in Quincy and the Columbian Lodge, Boston.

Gillette pursued some ideas of utopian socialism and published two books: The Human Drift ( 1894) and World Corporation (1910). King Camp Gillette died in 1932 before the time of electric shavers.