Sandy Kozel

 

        Russell Stover (May 6, 1888 – May 11, 1954)

Russell Stover was the founder of Russell Stover Candies. He
and his wife Clara tried their hand at farming early on, but gave
up after heavy rains destroyed their crop; instead Russell went
to work for a candy company.  

From Scientific American Magazine, 1898

The Winton automobile

The Winton Motor Carriage Company was one of the first American companies to
sell a motor car. On March 24, 1898, 70 year old Robert Allison of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania became the first person to buy a Winton after seeing the first ad for
a automobile in Scientific American magazine. The company later bought the car
back and donated it to the Smithsonian Museum in 1929.

Jacob Schick introduced the first successful electric shaver to go on the market
from his factory in Stamford, Connecticut. They first sold in New Your City for $25
each (equivalent to $350 today). Schick sold about 3,000 shavers the first year,
and sales increased until 1.5 million were in customers hands by 1937.

Despite some early claims, they didn’t shave closer than a wet steel blade, but
they were convenient to use.

 
Inventor Jacob Schick

1921 postcard