1936 Gillette Safety Razor Co. Vintage Ad | Lowell Thomas

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This 1936 vintage ad for the Gillette Safety Razor Company of Boston, MA has a black and white photo of Lowell Thomas and a story with the headline, “My adventure with the invisible”.

Year Published: 1936
Approximate overall size – inches: 4.5 x 11.5
Grade: Excellent

Excerpt:
“My guide took me upstairs and introduced me to a technician who presided over an amazing instrument. The pet gadget of the blond young modern Merlin from M.I.T. es a ‘sharpness comparer.’ Within its mysterious interior an adaptation of the weird usefulness of the photoelectric eye detects to an uncanny degree of accuracy whether that precious edge comes up to Gillette standards of sharpness.
There I realized that what my guide had told me was true. The perfect edge is perfectly invisible. It can be measured only with light-waves!”

This is a 88 yr. old original vintage ad removed from a 1936 publication and is not a reproduction of any kind.