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King Camp Gillette
King Camp Gillette was an American businessman who invented a bestselling safety razor and was the founder of the Gillette razor company. Gillette's innovation was the thin, inexpensive, disposable blade of stamped steel. Gillette is often erroneously credited with inventing the so-called razor-and-blades business model, in which razors are sold cheaply to increase the market for blades. However,…
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business · American entrepreneur (1855–1932) · entrepreneur · inventor · salesperson · writer · also King Camp Gillette, King C. Gillette, King Gillette, Gillette
Born 5 January 1855 · Died 9 July 1932 · Q314000
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2007).
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2005· 1 entry
The Gillette company was sold to Procter & Gamble for US$57 billion
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1992· 1 entry
The Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority (MRCA), a joint-powers authority associated with the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, resorted to its powers of eminent domain to condemn the core parcel comprising
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1990· 1 entry
SUA announced plans to build a future liberal arts college on campus and plans to expand the facility over the next 25 years to an enrollment of as many as 5,000 students
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1978· 1 entry
And ran her New Age church at the site until 1986 when Soka University of America (SUA) bought the land
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1970· 1 entry
Thomas Aquinas College rented the property from the Claretian Order before later moving their campus to Santa Paula in 1977
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1952· 1 entry
Bob Hope bought the property, immediately giving it to the Claretian Order of the Catholic Church, which operated a seminary on the grounds for 25 years
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1932· 1 entry
Died 1932-07-09.
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1903· 1 entry
When he sold a total of 51 razors and 168 blades
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1901· 1 entry
(changing the company's name to Gillette Safety Razor Company in July 1902)
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1891· 2 entries
And developed a close friendship with the founder, William Painter, inventor of the disposable metal bottle cap ("crown cork")
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They had one child, King Gaines Gillette (1891–1955).
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1855· 2 entries
In Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and raised in Chicago, Illinois
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Born 1855-01-05.
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