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[br]b. 5 January 1855 Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, USAd. 9 July 1932 Los Angeles, California, USA[br]American inventor and manufacturer, inventor of the safety razor.[br]Gillette's formal education in Chicago was brought to an end when a disastrous fire destroyed all his father's possessions. Forced to fend for himself, he worked first in the hardware trade in Chicago and New York, then as a travelling salesman. Gillette inherited the family talent for invention, but found that his successful inventions barely paid for those that failed. He was advised by a previous employer, William Painter (inventor of the Crown Cork), to look around for something that could be used widely and then thrown away. In 1895 he succeeded in following that advice of inventing something which people could use and then throw away, so that they would keep coming back for more. An idea came to him while he was honing an old-fashioned razor one morning; he was struck by the fact that only a short piece of the whole length of a cutthroat razor is actually used for shaving, as well as by the potentially dangerous nature of the implement. He "rushed out to purchase some pieces of brass, some steel ribbon used for clock springs, a small hand vise and some files". He thought of using a thin steel blade sharpened on each side, placed between two plates and held firmly together by a handle. Though coming from a family of inventors, Gillette had no formal technical education and was entirely ignorant of metallurgy. For six years he sought a way of making a cheap blade from sheet steel that could be hardened, tempered and sharpened to a keen edge.Gillette eventually found financial supporters: Henry Sachs, a Boston lamp manufacturer; his brother-in-law Jacob Heilbron; and William Nickerson, who had a considerable talent for invention. By skilled trial and error rather than expert metallurgical knowledge, Nickerson devised ways of forming and sharpening the blades, and it was these that brought commercial success. In 1901, the American Safety Razor Company, later to be renamed the Gillette Safety Razor Company, was set up. When it started production in 1903 the company was badly in debt, and managed to sell only fifty-one razors and 168 blades; but by the end of the following year, 90,000 razors and 12.4 million blades had been sold. A sound invention coupled with shrewd promotion ensured further success, and eight plants manufacturing safety razors were established in various parts of the world. Gillette's business experiences led him into the realms of social theory about the way society should be organized. He formulated his views in a series of books published over the years 1894 to 1910. He believed that competition led to a waste of up to 90 per cent of human effort and that want and crime would be eliminated by substituting a giant trust to plan production centrally. Unfortunately, the public in America, or anywhere else for that matter, were not ready for this form of Utopia; no omniscient planners were available, and human wants and needs were too various to be supplied by a single agency. Even so, some of his ideas have found favour: air conditioning and government provision of work for the unemployed. Gillette made a fortune from his invention and retired from active participation in the business in 1913, although he remained President until 1931 and Director until his death.[br]Bibliography"Origin of the Gillette razor", Gillette Blade (February/March).Further ReadingObituary, 1932, New York Times (11 July).J.Jewkes, D.Sawers and R.Stillerman, 1958, The Sources of Invention, London: Macmillan.LRD / IMcN -
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Airports: GCCУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Gillette, Wyoming USA
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General subject: Gillette ([d)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Жиллетт (фирменное название безопасных бритв и лезвий к ним , а парфюмерно-косметических товаров английского филиала одноимённой американской компании)
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Taboo: Gillette blade (см. blade)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > бисексуальная женщина
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Gillette — ist: der Markenname des Unternehmens The Gillette Company Orte in der Schweiz: Gillette VD, Ort in der Gemeinde Corcelles le Jorat, Kanton Waadt, Schweiz in den Vereinigten Staaten: Gillette (Arizona) Gillette (Florida) Gillette (New Jersey)… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Gillette — may refer to: * Gillette (brand) (formerly The Gillette Company), safety razor manufacturer * Gillette Stadium * Gillette, New Jersey * Gillette, Wyoming * Gilette, Alpes Maritimes, France * Gillette Children s Specialty Healthcare, Minnesota… … Wikipedia
Gillette — puede referirse a: La marca de productos Gillette, parte de Procter Gamble. La cantante estadounidense Gillette. La ciudad estadounidense de Gillette. Esta página de desambiguación cataloga artículos relacionados con el mismo título. Si llegaste … Wikipedia Español
gillette — [ʒilɛt] n. m. ÉTYM. XXe; nom déposé d une lame de rasoir. ❖ ♦ Rasoir mécanique auquel est adaptée la lame Gillette, rasoir à lames. || Se raser avec un Gillette. 0 (…) il se souvenait assez mal de son enfance musicienne, il l évoqua mieux lorsque … Encyclopédie Universelle
Gillette — [ʒɪ let], King Camp, amerikanischer Erfinder und Industrieller, * Fond du Lac (Wisconsis) 5. 1. 1855, ✝ bei Los Angeles (Calif.) 10. 7. 1932; erfand die Rasierklinge und den Rasierapparat; gründete 1901 in Boston (Massachusetts) die Gillette… … Universal-Lexikon
Gillette — Gillette, WY U.S. city in Wyoming Population (2000): 19646 Housing Units (2000): 7931 Land area (2000): 13.369300 sq. miles (34.626326 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.024723 sq. miles (0.064033 sq. km) Total area (2000): 13.394023 sq. miles… … StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places
Gillette, WY — U.S. city in Wyoming Population (2000): 19646 Housing Units (2000): 7931 Land area (2000): 13.369300 sq. miles (34.626326 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.024723 sq. miles (0.064033 sq. km) Total area (2000): 13.394023 sq. miles (34.690359 sq. km)… … StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places
gillette® — {{hw}}{{gillette®}}{{/hw}}Nome commerciale di un rasoio di sicurezza. B s. f. inv. Nome commerciale di lamette a due tagli per l omonimo rasoio. ETIMOLOGIA: dal nome di K.C. Gillette (1855 1932), l industriale statunitense che l inventò … Enciclopedia di italiano
gillette — Con el sentido de ‘hoja de afeitar desechable’, se usa con cierta frecuencia en español la voz gillette, marca registrada que tiene su origen en el apellido del industrial estadounidense que la inventó. La existencia de los equivalentes españoles … Diccionario panhispánico de dudas
Gillette — (izg. žilȅt), King Camp (1855 1932) DEFINICIJA američki industrijalac i izumitelj sigurnosne britvice i aparata za brijanje … Hrvatski jezični portal
Gillette — [ji let′] King Camp 1855 1932; U.S. inventor of the safety razor … English World dictionary