The first electric toothbrush, the Broxodent, was invented in Switzerland in 1954. As of the turn of the 21st century, nylon had come to be widely used for the bristles, and the handles were usually molded from thermoplastic materials.he bristle toothbrush spread to Europe, brought back from China to Europe by travellers. It was adopted in Europe during the 17th century. The earliest identified use of the word toothbrush in English was in the autobiography of Anthony Wood, who wrote in 1690 that he had bought a toothbrush from J. Barret.
All of these charge an entry fee, but a ticket to the Acropolis, which currently costs a meagre 12 Euros (2014), also gives free access to six other must see archaeological sites in Athens. Read on for more details and information about buying these tickets.f you want to visit one or more of the associated sites, and are not visiting the Acropolis, there are individual entry tickets for these six sites, all but the Ancient Agora cost 2â¬ â the agora is 4â¬.
Below is a just a selection; there are other free places, such as the galleries and museums of area colleges and universities. ALWAYS FREE (or pay what you wish): American Folk Art Museum. American Museum of Natural History (pay what you wish) Bronx Museum (pay what you wish) Brooklyn Academy of Musicâs BAMcafÃ© live events. Brooklyn Museum (pay what you wish) The Cloisters (pay what you wish) El Museo del Barrio (pay what you wish) Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College Green-Wood Cemetery International Print Center Metropolitan Museum of Art (pay what you wish) Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology National Museum of the American IndianâSmithsonian Institution New York City Police Museum (pay what you wish) P.S.1 MoMA (pay what you wish) Queens Botanical Garden (free Nov-March) Queens Museum of Art (pay what you wish) SculptureCenter (pay what you wish) Socrates Sculpture Park Staten Island Museum (pay what you wish) Storefront for Art & Architecture Studio Museum in Harlem (pay what you wish) Waterfront Museum. MONTHLY FREE HOURS: Bronx Museum (First Friday, 6-10 pm) Brooklyn Childrenâs Museum (Second Weekend, before 11 am)