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Inventions.
Byline: --KATE SULLIVAN
Ralph Waldo Emerson said the secret to success was building a better mousetrap, a maxim the beauty industry has followed to glamorous (and sometimes disastrous) ends. Below, the most notable inventions to enter the patent office.
4000 B.C.: Century in which Egyptians first crafted combs out of fish bones.
1869: Year a St. Louis ophthalmologist first experimented with electrolysis by using a battery-powered needle to remove ingrown eyelashes.
10: Minutes it took to finish one eye with the first eyelash curler, Kurlash, in 1923.
4 to 10: Percentage of cocaine in a solution that a 1912 doctors' manual suggested be put on the skin to numb it before electrolysis.
$1.46: Price of the Princess Bust Developer--a kit containing cream and a plunger-like device--in an 1897 Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog.
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