Slate has the history of the vibrator in slide show form. Here are a few highlights:
- Vibrator innovation was a driving force behind the creation of the small electric motor.
- Hamilton Beach, patented its first take-home vibrator in 1902.
- The vibrator was the 5th electrical appliance to be introduced into the home. By 1917, there were more vibrators than toasters in American homes.
- Vibrators came back into the mainstream in the 1990s, thanks to the Reagan administration. With the public health threat of AIDS looming, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop mailed out a list of safe-sex options to every household in the land in the late 1980s. Vibrators were on it.
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