Did You Know...
...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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5680120 | Transportation safety apparatus and method A transportation safety apparatus and method for the detection of obstacles which lie off the line-of-sight or beyond the field of view of a moving vehicle entails shooting a laser beam through the air from a moving vehicle, capturing the beam and passing... | 10/21/1997 |
| 4323210 | Manual block traffic control and signaling system for railroads Adjacent stations along a single track railroad without continuous train detection, are coupled by a communication channel over which distinctive signals requesting, acknowledging, accepting, and confirming completion of, train movements are transmitted. ... | 04/06/1982 |
