Result of an Alaskan gold prospector’s spraining his ankle 28 years ago was the creation of a luxury product with an amazing consumer appeal. The prospector was Jacob Schick. Forced to lie in camp ...

Few men have been so long or so profitably interested in shaving as Colonel Jacob Schick. It was he who first applied the principle of the repeating rifle to the design of safety razors, inventing in ...

Schick Quattro for Women hit store shelves last week with a multi-pronged campaign reminiscent of a sports car launch. Schick has been touting the four-bladed razor with teaser ads, billboards and ...

Go to updated and illustrated post. __1931: __The first practical, electric shavers go on sale. They're definitely a cut above their clumsy predecessors. The gizmos were the brainchild of Jacob Schick ...

SILVER SPRING — Rozier Carter rushes into the Electric Shaver Shop of Maryland, a five-o’clock shadow on his face and a 1983 Remington in his hand. “I had a helluva time finding this place,” he pants.

The battle of the blades is becoming even more cutthroat. Word in the shaving industry is that Schick plans to introduce the world's first four-blade razor later this year, a bid to slice into rival ...

American soldier and inventor Jacob Schick, born 140 years ago today patented the first electric razor in 1928. In what appears an inspired move, given the average man spends 3000 hours of his life in ...