Safety razor the razor to sever the hair without danger of cutting the skin." The Kampfe Brothers produced razors under their own name following the 1880 patent and improved the design in a series of subsequent patents. These models were manufactured under the "Star Safety Razor" brand. A third pivotal innovation was a safety razor using a disposable double-edge blade that King Camp Gillette submitted a patent application for in 1901 and was granted in 1904. The success of Gillette's invention was largely a result of his having been awarded a contract to supply the American troops in World War I with
Hanlon's razor a book compilation of various jokes related to Murphy's law published in Arthur Bloch's "Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong!" (1980). Subsequently, in 2002, the "Jargon File" entry noted the same. Hanlon's razor Hanlon's razor is an aphorism expressed in various ways, including: An eponymous law, probably named after a Robert J. Hanlon, it is a philosophical razor which suggests a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for human behavior. Inspired by Occam's razor, the aphorism was popularized in this form and under this name by the "Jargon File", a glossary of computer programmer slang. In 1990,