Cutex Cutex Cutex is a brand of nail care products, owned by Revlon, Inc. The original product was developed and established in 1911 by Northam Warren Company, based in Stamford, Connecticut. Northam Warren created the first fingernail cuticle remover and nail polish in 1911. Cutex introduced nail tints in 1914, and a liquid nail polish for the first time in 1917. The product took a long time to catch on, in 1927, it was reported as being a fad in London. In 1928, the company introduced an acetone-based nail polish remover that was safe for home and helped lead to the
Science of smells Science of smells The odorology or science of smells is a technology used mainly in criminology for judicial identification. The technology is based on the analysis of smells by dogs notably to merge the criminals or to identify the smell of objects (explosives, drugs). Olfaction of dogs is used for a long time by the police (location of drug, of explosives, of weapon, body of missing persons, criminals' identification) or the services of rescue (bodies buried under avalanches). From 1910, a dog handler Friedo Schmidt describes in his book Verbrecherspur und Polizeihund («The criminal links and the police dog») how