King C. Gillette was born in 1855 and died in1932.
When we was young, he worked as a traveling salesman.
He was always interested in inventions and received some patents. But the most important was the one for his invention of the first disposable blade for safety razor..
While developing the blade, Khe was inspired by one of his employers, William Painter, who made his fortune inventing the disposable bottle cap.
William advised King Gillette to invent another disposable item that would create a steady stream of return customers.
In 1895, Gillette worked out the idea for a razor blade that could be fit into a holder and coul be replaced when dulled, allowing always having a sharp blade to shave.
After an extensive search, Gillette found William Emery Nickerson, an enginner from MIT, and theyproduced the thinner sharpest steel blades at the moment.

"No stropping, no honing"

In 1901 the American Safety Razor Company, soon renamed the Gillette Safety Razor Company, was formed.
The first production began in 1903, and Gillette registered his patent on November 15 of 1904.
A lot of imitators emerged, but the Gillette Company was a success, and King Gillette retired from management in 1913.
Despite considerable economic success in the competitive market, Gillette remained an anti-capitalist utopian and a staunch advocate of social engineering.
He both wrote and subsidized books on the subjects, including The Human Drift (1894,) Gillette's Industrial Solution (1908,) and World Corporation (1910).
While King Gillette's personal fortune was ruined after the 1929 stock market crash, the Gillette Company still exists as a subsidiary of the Proctor & Gamble Company.