...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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| 6763774 | Active deck suspension system An active deck suspension system for use in marine vessels having a hull and an operator deck. A custom chassis includes pneumatic cylinders which absorb impact forces acting upon the boat hull or suspension deck, and also includes auxiliary emergency jacks. The cha... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6554225 | Commercial aircraft low cost, lightweight floor design An aircraft deck support system includes horizontal deck support beams connected to the aircraft's frames. Each deck support beam has a plurality of machined, generally T-shaped supports. Each T-shaped support includes either a horizontal recess or a rais... | 04/29/2003 |
| 4446805 | Deck construction for refrigerated cargo ships A deck construction for refrigerated cargo ships for tween decks in which a longitudinally-extending insulated corrugated member provides a series of alternate V-shaped longitudinally-extending channels for supply air and an intermediate series of inverte... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4168581 | Cooling container vessel having a cooling system A cooling container vessel, comprises a vessel hull with spaced apart bulkheads which define a storage space therebetween and which includes substantially vertically arranged guide frames disposed in the space at spaced locations from the bulkheads alongs... | 09/25/1979 |