An American engineer, trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who worked with King Camp Gillette to solve the manufacturing and metallurgy problems of producing a thin, sharpenable, disposable razor blade cheaply at scale, becoming a co-founder and major shareholder of the American Safety Razor Company in 1901. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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BirthplaceProvincetown, Massachusetts 1 Defining ContributionMIT-trained engineer who solved the mass production and metallurgy problems of Gillette's razor blade design and became a co-founder and major shareholder of the American Safety Razor Company. 3 Connections
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Nickerson, an MIT-trained engineer, solved the manufacturing problem for Gillette's disposable blade and became his business partner in founding the American Safety Razor (later Gillette) Company.
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Nickerson co-founded the safety razor company that became Gillette, pioneering the disposable blade shaving business.
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MIT-trained engineer who solved the mass-production problems of Gillette's blade design and co-founded the company as a major shareholder.
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November 5, 1853
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June 5, 1930
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Provincetown, Massachusetts
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Boston, Massachusetts
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- Associated With: King Camp Gillette
- Associated With: Personal Care Industry
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