Shaving Sword introduced the 'bonded blade' razor, which consisted of a single blade housed in a plastic cartridge. Gillette followed in 1971 with its Trac II cartridge razor that utilised two blades. Gillette built on this twin blade design for a time, introducing new razors with added features such as a pivoting head, lubricating strip, and spring-mounted blades until their 1998 launch of the triple-bladed Mach3 razor. Schick launched a four-blade Quattro razor later the same year, and in 2006 Gillette launched the five-blade Fusion. Since then, razors with six and seven blades have been introduced. Wholly disposable razors gained popularity
Mach: The First Colony Mach: The First Colony Mach: The First Colony is a role-playing game published by Alliance Publications in 1983. "Mach: The First Colony" is a science-fiction system in which the players are mercenaries on a frontier planet. The planet, its societies, and mixed technologies are described in detail. The first book (32 pages) covers character creation and combat; the second (32 pages) covers skills and creatures. The game includes an introductory scenario (16 pages). "Mach: The First Colony" was designed by Michael Lange with Martin Miller, and published by Alliance Publications in 1983 as a boxed set containing a 32-page book,