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Electric razor, electric razor - an electromechanical device for shaving.

It consists of a shaving mechanism (knife block) with disk or net knives; electric motor powered from the mains or from built-in batteries or accumulators; and plastic case.

For cutting beards, mustaches and hair on the temples, an electric shaver with a trimmer (built-in cutting unit) is convenient. Electric shavers with retractable or folding trimmers are convenient because they do not take up space at all, unlike individual devices.

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Born in 1877 to a German immigrant, Jacob Schick grew up in New Mexico and joined the army in 1898 with the start of the Spanish-American War. Thus began his military career. In 1905, as a second lieutenant, Jacob was assigned to Fort Gibbon, Alaska, where he spent five years building communications lines. Army discipline entered his flesh and blood - he always shaved smoothly, which was the reason for the appearance of two of his most famous inventions.
With the outbreak of World War I, Jacob Schick went to Europe and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and after retiring, he devoted himself to invention.

His first invention dealt with an important problem he faced in Alaska. At low temperatures, the fingers lost sensitivity, and it was not easy to install the blade in the razor. Using the principle of operation of a self-loading rifle, which he learned during the war in Europe, Schick developed and patented a razor with a semi-automatic blade change packed in clips, and in 1925 founded a company to manufacture it. And three years later, he invented the first electric razor, thereby solving another problem in Alaska - the lack of hot water.

The electric razor was pretty clumsy. To use it, both hands were required: in one it was necessary to hold the engine, which, using a flexible shaft, powered the trimmer. Despite this, the razor, produced since 1931, was a huge success: in two years, more than a million pieces were sold at $ 25, and this was during the Great Depression!

The next step in the field of dry electric shaving was taken on the other side of the ocean. In the 1930s, the Dutch company Philips in Eindhoven tried to actively look for new market niches. One of its sales representatives brought a whole bunch of electrical household appliances from the USA in 1937, and the company carefully studied each for the possibility of improvement and release.

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Schick razor advertisement

Among the overseas equipment was the Schick brand razor. She caught the attention of an engineer from the radio development department, Alexander Horowitz. He decided to abandon the cumbersome mechanism for converting rotation into translational motion, and this made it possible to combine a rotary cutting unit and an electric motor in one housing, which was used as a generator from a bicycle dynamo.

So in 1939, the first Philips rotary electric razor was introduced to the world. It had only one cutting head, later there were two, and then three. Since then, more than 600 million rotary razors of this brand have been sold, as well as 2 billion shaving heads.

Author: S.Apresov

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