Nicholas McKay (inventor), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About Nicholas McKay (inventor)
- Nicholas McKay, Sr.
- (December 8, 1920 – November 15, 2014) was an American inventor and entrepreneur.
- His most well-known (and first commercial) product was the Lint Pic-Up, the world's first lint roller.McKay had the idea after needing masking tape, a paper roll and some wire to clean his suit before chaperoning his son's high school dance in 1956.
- He and his late wife Helen formed Helmac the next day.
- Helmac is a household products company that eventually held 92% of the American market in 1996. McKay credits his humble upbringing on a family farm in Ohio during the Great Depression as inspiration of sorts for his career.
- He recently produced When The World Breaks, a documentary on parallels between the Great Depression and today's poor economic climate.
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