...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| 7482310 | Method of fracturing subterranean formations utilizing emulsions comprising acrylamide copolymers A method of treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a well bore including: (a) preparing a fracturing fluid containing a mixture resulting from: (I) providing a water-in-oil emulsion composition... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7115201 | Method of treating mine drainage A method of treating mine drainage water including the step of adding a scale control agent to the mine drainage water and, optionally, adding an oxidizing agent to the mine drainage water and/or precipitating and settling the metals in their hydroxide form from the... | 10/03/2006 |
| 6932909 | Method of treating mine drainage A method of treating mine drainage water including the step of adding a scale control agent to the mine drainage water and, optionally, adding an oxidizing agent to the mine drainage water and/or precipitating and settling the metals in their hydroxide form from the... | 08/23/2005 |