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How Alaskan Mining Led To the Invention of the Electric Razor

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Cunning something that could cut beards without water and without injury was one design problem. Another was the power origin: Schick's electric razor required a motor, and trusted ones at the time were not smaller than a breadbox. So Schick solid to build one himself. It took five years, but in 1923 he patented his own handheld motor. It was held in one steadily while using the shaver in the other, but still.

Five years after that, Schick applied for a transparent on the electric shaver. The basics are familiar: Where the shaver hits the visage, there was "a shear-plate with openings large enough to admit trifle but small enough to prevent the skin from entering the openings." Behind the dish was a cutter with teeth that would "allow the hair to be nipped at the skin of the skin." The blade oscillated, working with the teeth at the back of the portion to slash hair.

In 1929, he put the electric shaver on the customer base. At $25, it was a pricey replacement for something you could do cheaply by hand. And the motor, while slight enough to hold, was still too bulky to fit comfortably in the hand. Nevertheless, Schick sold more than 3,000 galvanizing razors the first year. He continued to tweak the motor, whittling down the largeness to something manageable—something fit for, his patent says, "hand tools such as shaving machines, hair's breadth clippers, vibrators, dentist's tools, and various other articles requiring such a motor." (Vibrators? Yeah but we're extremely sure not those kind, calm down). By 1937 he had sold almost two million.

Source: Gizmodo

Police Blotter: Weapons Discovered During Accident Investigation

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For questions about this the fuzz blotter, please send an email to: anthony.leone@reinforcement.com .

INCIDENTS:

Narcotics at the 200 block of West Chester Pike on 10/19 at 10:22 p.m. — Officers conducted a carrier stop due to the vehicle displaying an expired registration sticker. An inventory search of the channel was conducted and officers found a zip lock baggie with marijuana and a ceramic boatswain's pipe. Randall Barras was arrested and charged.

Bicycle Pinching at the 300 block of Lansdowne Road on 10/19 at 2:49 a.m.

Narcotics at Pont Reading Passage and Belmont Avenue on 10/20 at 12:29 a.m. — While on guard the officer observed two subjects sitting in an enclosed bus stay. The officer saw the one subject blow a large puff of smoke and then could smell a substantial odor of burnt marijuana. A pedestrian stop was conducted and the referred to was in possession of 37 small baggies of marijuana, scope and a large quantity of empty baggies. Paris Morrison fled from patrol during the arrest. The officer did place Morrison in handcuffs after a sententious foot pursuit and he was arrested and charged. Morrison girlfriend, a light-skinned 16-year-old female was cited for curfew assault.

Source: Patch.com