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Earle
Dickson
Band Aids
- Earle Dickson was employed as a cotton buyer for
Johnson & Johnson when he invented the band-aid in 1921.
- He
noticed his wife was always cutting her fingers in the kitchen while
preparing food. At that time a bandage consisted of separate gauze and
adhesive tape that you would cut to size and apply yourself.
- Earle
Dickson saw a problem with this method and noticed that gauze and
adhesive tape she used would soon fall off her active fingers. He
decided to invent something that would stay in place and protect small
wounds better.
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