Hair dryer (Godefroy)
Secador de pelo (Godefroy)
- Date
- 1888 · confidence medium
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Alexandre-Ferdinand Godefroy
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A hood under which the salon client sits, connected to a gas or coal heater that blows hot air. It was the first hair dryer, which took decades to reach homes.
The hand-held electric dryer appeared around 1920 (Germany and the United States); Godefroy's model was a fixed salon machine.
What it led to
- fast hair drying in hair salons
- the hand-held electric dryer in the 1920s
- styles requiring heat such as the permanent wave