biography
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Gillette, King C(amp)
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pronunciation:
[jilet]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1855–1932)
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| biography:
| Inventor and businessman, born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, USA. An inveterate ‘tinkerer’, he worked for hardware concerns in Chicago, New York, and Kansas City, and as a travelling salesman. Advised to invent a product for which there would be a continual demand, by 1895 he had made a crude version of a disposable razor blade, and went on to found the Gillette Safety Razor Co (1901) in Boston, MA to make his razor and blades. In 1904 he sold 90 000 razors and over 12 million blades. He retired to Los Angeles (1913) but remained president of the company until 1931. A utopian, he wrote four books translating his business experience into social theories, culminating with The People's Corporation (1924). |
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