Author:King Camp Gillette

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King Camp Gillette
(1855–1932)

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American inventor, entrepreneur, and utopian socialist. Best known for inventing the double-edge razor, a popular type of safety razor that uses disposable blades. He wrote several books in which he advocates all industry be taken over by a single corporation owned by the public. His fourth and last work, The People's Corporation, was co-authored by Upton Beall Sinclair.

Works

The Human Drift (1894) (transcription project)
The Ballot Box (1897) (external scan)
Mining in the San Juan country (1908)
World Corporation (1910) (external scan)
Origin of the Gillette Razor (The Gillette Blade, February 1918) (external scan)
Origin of the Gillette Razor (continued) (The Gillette Blade, March 1918) (external scan)
The People's Corporation (1924), co-written with Upton Beall Sinclair

Works about Gillette

Gillette's Social Redemption (1907) (external scan)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

This author died in 1932, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 91 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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