84 years, 3 months, and 2 days ago Jacob Schick patented the first electric dry razor – paving the way for countless razor burns and bad shaves… well, maybe not. Some people do claim to get a good shave from the electrics, but I’m not one of them. Still, the electric shaving machine is older than many people might realise – and the first model was quite a bit simpler than the modern devices.