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The safety razor
1901
South Boston, Massachusetts
Simon A. Eugster · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
King Gillette wanted to invent something people would throw away and buy again. The disposable blade took six years to make cheaply. The army issued 3.5 million razors in the First World War and a generation came home shaving daily.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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