I had no idea that curling irons dated back so far! The first hair straightener with two flat irons was patented in 1909. Actually, the use of a heated implement to curl hair can be traced back to the Babylonians. Ancients drawings depict people with curled hair. Metals were heated over an open flame which obviously made it very difficult to control or maintain the temperature of the implements.
In 1946, Jessie T. Pope, an African American woman from Detroit, invented a thermostatically controlled curling iron and patented it with the help of Eleanor Roosevelt.
This is undoubtedly the prettiest curling iron I've ever seen!
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