Hot-headed Milestones of those who covet curl s
BC As many as 6,000 years ago, the Greeks, Babylonians and others heated rods of iron or bronze over a fire and used them to achieve a curled hairstyle. Temperature could not be controlled.
1866 Hiram Maxim, an inventor, was still in his 20’s when he received his first patent for the hair curling iron. He went on to experiment with implements of an even more dangerous sort, developing the first fully automatic machine gun in 1884.
1884 Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s aunt, Laura Delano, died in a tragic fire. She heated her curling irons over an alcohol lamp, that was some- how knocked over. Her robe was sprayed with burning fuel and she flew down the stairs, into the front yard, “a cloud of fiery flame.”
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