Pulse Innovations, Inc.
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Stansbury, Jacqueline
label: Collection Creator
content: Stansbury, Benjamin H., 1935-1996
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content: Benjamin H. Stansbury Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1990 - 1995
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1350, Series 10
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Stansbury was an initial shareholder in Pulse Innovations (approximately 35%) which was a Canadian (Ontario) corporation formed to further develop, market and license the Pulse toothbrush.  Other shareholders in Pulse included Spark Innovations, Inc., a Canadian venture capital incubator (SPI), and certain principal investors in SPI (who contributed equity capital in various funding rounds). Spark Innovations, Inc., of King City, Ontario was founded in 1988 by inventor, designer, and businessman Robert G. Dickie to design innovative new products and to profit from equity ownership. Stansbury was also an officer in and employed by SPI as its Vice President-Technical Services and as an engineering consultant/technical advisor on other products under development by SPI under an employment agreement effective June 22, 1992.

The Pulse electric toothbrush was a new design of electric toothbrush based on a cleaning principle where the bristles reciprocated vertically along their axes, perpendicular to the brush head in rapid, short strokes. The materials in this series contain miscellaneous notes, correspondence, drawings, sketches, clinical studies, testing data, technical specifications, Board of Directors Meeting minutes, and the license opiion agreement with Procter & Gamble.