1930 | Everyday Life
Everyday Life
Schick Dry Shaver, Inc. is founded by Col. Jacob Schick, who will begin production next year at Stamford, Conn., and sell 3,000 of his electric shavers at $25 each (see 1923). Sales will reach 10,381 in 1932, and nearly 1.85 million of his shavers will have been sold by the end of 1937.
Scotch Tape is introduced September 8 by Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. (3M), which ships a roll of the new cellophane tape to Shellmar Products Corp. of Chicago (see 1925). Food producers have begun using cellophane to wrap bread, candy, and other products, and the original purpose of Richard G. Drew's cellophane-based tape is to seal food packages; heat-sealing will soon make that use obsolete, but Scotch brand cellophane tape will find myriad other uses, 3M employee John A. Borden will invent a tape dispenser with a built-in cutting edge in 1932, and the company will make Scotch the brand name for a full line of adhesive tapes.