King Camp Gillette, has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. 
“When King C. Gillette was granted patent #775,134 on November 15, 1904, for a revolutionary new product called the safety razor, he could not have foreseen that his brilliant idea of a razor with an inexpensive and disposable blade would still be used more than 100 years later,” Procter and Gamble said in a statement. “Today, more than 600 million people around the world shave with a Gillette product every day.
Cincinnati consumer products company Procter and Gamble (NYSE: PG) purchased Boston-based Gillette in 2005 for $54 billion.
“King C. Gillette represents the American ideals of determination and invention, and we are extremely proud that he has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame,” said Kelly Vanasse, associate director for Gillette. “Gillette founded this company on a time-honored credo, ‘There is a better way to shave and we will find it,’ which we uphold today through ongoing innovation and technological superiority.”
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