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Gillette All-Purpose Styler, released in 2012, is a waterproof beard trimmer that can cut four different lengths. [ 116 ] Treo is the first razor designed for caregivers to shave seniors and people with disabilities, was introduced in 2017. [ 117 ]
An electric trimmer. Electric hair clippers work in a similar way as manual ones, but are driven by an electric motor which makes the blades oscillate from side to side. [6] They have gradually displaced manual hair clippers in many countries. Three different motor types are used in clipper production: magnetic, rotary and pivot.
historical image of hair irons (top) A hair iron or hair tong is a tool used to change the arrangement of the hair using heat. There are three general kinds: curling irons, used to make the hair curl; straightening irons, commonly called straighteners or flat irons, used to straighten the hair; and crimping irons, used to create crimps of the desired size in the hair.
An illustration for a hot comb patent from 1920. A hot comb (also known as a straightening comb or pressing comb) is a metal comb that is used to straighten moderate or coarse hair and create a smoother hair texture. [1] A hot comb is heated and used to straighten the hair from the roots.
Comb-drives are microelectromechanical actuators, often used as linear actuators, which utilize electrostatic forces that act between two electrically conductive combs. Comb drive actuators typically operate at the micro- or nanometer scale and are generally manufactured by bulk micromachining or surface micromachining a silicon wafer substrate.
A commutator consists of a set of copper segments, fixed around the part of the circumference of the rotating machine, or the rotor, and a set of spring-loaded brushes fixed to the stationary frame of the machine. Two or more fixed brushes connect to the external circuit, either a source of current for a motor or a load for a generator.
King C. Gillette wearing a Panama hat, circa 1908. This is said to be Gillette's favorite picture of himself. [15]Gillette was also a Utopian Socialist. [16] He published a book titled The Human Drift (1894) [17] which advocated that all industry should be taken over by a single corporation owned by the public, and that everyone in the US should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered ...
Wilkinson Sword is a British brand selling razors and other personal care products, currently owned by Edgewell Personal Care.The company was founded as a manufacturer of guns made in Shotley Bridge in County Durham, by Henry Nock in London in 1772.