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First Electric Dry Razor 1910 (Idea) 1929-Invention hit Market The idea came from retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Schick who grew tired of lathering up in the freezing cold to shave while he was mining for gold in Alaska. He decided he would do something about it and drew up a sketch for a razor that used electricity which would not require the consumer the lather before shaving. After being turned down repeatedly by manufacturers and returning to war, he decided to put his idea on hold. He left the army in 1919 in hopes of getting his invention on the market and in 10 years, Schick sold Magazine Repeating Razor to fund Schick Dry Shaver. This invention may not mean much to women but there a surely millions of men who have benefited Two brothers Joseph and Paul Galvin teamed up with William Lear, a radio parts owner and Elmer Wavering, an audio engineer and installed their first model of a radio into a Studebaker in May of 1930. A month later, Paul Galvin cranked up the radio near a pier at a convention in Atlantic City and needless to say, orders began to fly in for the radios. In 1933, Ford began offering his cars installed with Galvin Manufacturing or Motorola radios. Without the car radio, the whole dynamic of driving would be different today. Today, people depend on the radio not only for music, but news and other information on the go for their daily lives. Chester Carlson, a recently laid of employee of Bell Telephone Libraries went to earn his law degree and took a job at a New York electronics firm. After growing frustrated with copying patent drawings over and over by hand, he began experimenting using electrostatic attraction to adhere powder to plain paper. After trying for months, he successfully copied the date and location “10-22-38 ASTORIA”. He won a paten in 1942 and in 1947 Haloid Company won rights and changed the name to Xerox. 1959, Xerox sold the first automatic copier. Without the invention of xerography, every page ever copied would have had to have been written by hand. From major