suffering from dysentery, where one version of the invention story claims he conceived of the idea of an electric razor. He returned to the Philippines from 1903-1905 as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 8th Infantry Regiment. Schick enlisted in the 14th Infantry Regiment in 1898 and was shortly thereafter assigned to the Philippines in the 1st Division 8th Army Corps. At the early age of 16, Schick was in charge of a railroad line that ran from Los Corrillos, New Mexico to a coal mine opened by his father.

Jacob Schick (Septem– July 3, 1937) was an American inventor and entrepreneur who patented the first electric razor. I feel much more admiration for the genius minds, the dedication and inventive of two gentlemen, two immigrant mechanical engineers that through the decades shaped the injector razor as we know it and gifted us with a plethora of tremendous shaving tool: Octavius V. Later he did what he can to avoid to pay taxes and ended his life as a runaway from justice. Yes, he invented the first 'injector' in the beautiful shape of a compact travel razor, where ' the blade could be ejected with the speed of a cartridge clip from an automatic pistol', but his was a utilitarian invention, only to funds what it was his real focus: the first electric razor. I just wanted to put together these two invaluable sources adding some extra, like a seasoning over a delicious recipe. Waits already had access to further infos about these wonderful razors. Who owns the brilliant 'A Safety Razor Compendium: The Book' by Robert K. There was no need to compile another chart due to the fact it's already there, brilliantly published on Schick Injector Razors following the Alan Appleby classification. After I've spent the last few months recollecting pieces of information on the Gem style SE razors I have to come out of the closet and say I get my better shaves from an I2 Hydromagic Eversharp injector out of the +40 razors in my collection.

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