Earle Dickson was an employee at Johnson & Johnson when he invented the band-aid in 1921.
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Band-Aids
Earle Dickson took a piece of gauze
and attached it to the center of a piece of tape, and then covered the
product with crinoline to keep it sterile. His boss, James Johnson, saw
Dickson's invention and decided to manufacture band-aids to the public.
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