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On July 5, 1910, U.S. Patent No. 963677 issued to Edward H Amet on a Hair Drying Fan.<\/p>\n\n\n

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As the patent explains, the double handles are jointed to allow the user to dry hair on the sides and back of the head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amet was born in Philadelphia in 1860. His first patent, age seventeen, was for an improved telephone. In 1884 Amet settled in Waukegan, Illinois, and became a consulting engineer, obtaining patents for coin-operated weighing machines. He designed a clockwork motor for Edison’s phonograph and developed his own phonograph. He also developed a motion picture projector, and other film making equipment, and even produced some films.
Amet eventually settled in California, and by 1911 had filed the first of a series of patents for a synchronised sound camera and projector (US Patent No. 1,065,576). He also worked in 3-D projection, gliders, and a guided torpedo. Edward Amet died 16 August 1948 in Redondo Beach, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His hair dryer was probably not his most technical invention, but it is today’s Patent of the Day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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