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History About Hairbrushes
History About The Hairbrush
In The Beginning
Before Samuel Fiery invented, Kent Brushes, which is located in England, was the first known hairbrush manufacture. Hugh Rock and Samuel Fiery were the first designers to patent their design about a new hairbrush. Brushes, in the beginning, were made out of, natural bristles, until Lyda Newman came along.
Lyda Newman was born in Ohio since there’s no official date on when she was born, she born approximately around 1885. Lyda Newman was a Civil Rights Activist, an inventor, and a Women’s Rights Activist. She lived with her mother which was a housewife and her father which was a steelworker. In the late 1890s, she moved to New York to start her new career and to be with her family. She didn’t like how the first hairbrush was made, she decided to create a new design and applied for a patent on November 15, 1898.
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Newman was able to improve the hairbrush by allowing an easy way of cleaning and it had hard and larger bristles. This brush included a durable synthetic bristle,(like the ones we have today), a ventilation chamber which allowed an easy cleaning, and a storage place for any dirt or impurities pulled from the scalp. These improvements were made because, at the time, there were advanced hairstyles so the hair brushes needed to help the style.
Lyda's Hairbrush Design
Madam C.J Walker
Madam C.J Walker was born December 23, 1867, near Delta, Louisiana. She was inspired to make hair products by her own experience with a scalp ailment which resulted in her own hair loss. She died on May 25, 1919, at the age 51, in Irvington, New York.
She started experimenting with her own formula, creating a hair product to cure scalp infections. When she moved to Denver, she worked for a pharmacist where she learned basic chemistry that allowed her to make a perfect ointment that healed dandruff and other hygenie related ailments.
The invention of the hairbrush impact everyone in today's society because the hairbrush helps with many things. The hairbrush was a breakthrough in hair care and without it everyone's hair would be damaged. Everybody around the world have helped the invention became what it is today.
All About The Hairbrush
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