King Gillette's Accomplishments

“I didn't know enough to quit,” this quote that provides you with a great deal of resilience was from an American inventor with one of the greatest companies in today's age, and his name is King Gillette.This biographical essay will discuss Gillette’s early life, his adult life, and the backstory of his invention. and how his invention changed people's lives for the better. To begin, this essay will describe King Gillette’s early life and how he got started in the inventing business. King C. Gillette was born on January 5th, 1855, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin to George Wolcott Gillette and Fanny Lemira Camp, he was also a sibling to Adell Gillette, Lena Gillette, Matt Gillette, George H. Gillette, and Fannie Gillette. His father was a patent agent

When King Gillette was 16 years old, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed the family business, and they then moved to New York for a fresh start. While in New York, King’s father had become a patent agent and often described the inventions he saw to his family, along with how the inventors became rich as a result of their imagination and persistence. These stories inspired a young King Gillette, and when he was only 17 years old, he left school to become a traveling salesman in hopes of becoming a successful inventor and salesman. As a salesman, he not only sold the merchandise, but he worked on creative ways to make improvements to his merchandise. This career started a long path that led to some minor inventions, but eventually led to the biggest success he could dream of. For years, Gillette worked as a salesman while trying to make inventions that would help sell his products, but nothing satisfied his hunger for

The next year, in 1895, Gillette went back to his birthplace of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and began work as a salesman at Crown Cork & Seal Co. to try and find his roots. The owner, who had invented the bottle cap, knew Gillette aspired to be an inventor, so he told Gillette that inventing something disposable is great for sales and this advice stuck in the back of Gillette's mind. Soon, Gillette left the Crown Cork & Seal Co. in Wisconsin, and moved to Boston. One morning while shaving before work, Gillette got upset that his razor could not cut effectively anymore, and it was too worn out to be sharpened again. It was at that moment that Gillette suddenly had an idea that he could make a razor that was sharpened by the manufacturer, and then thrown out when it was dull. He also thought that this new razor idea would also be a much safer alternative to the dangerous straight-edge razor that men at that time were using to shave. Initially, Gillette went to several people at MIT to ask about this idea, and he was told that getting the metal the way he wanted would be