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...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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| 5432338 | Silicon opto-electronic integrated circuit for fiber optic gyros or communication An opto-electronic integrated circuit contains a coupler and one or two detector/receivers which may be on a silicon substrate which permits "blind" attachment of optical fibers by means of precision grooves and vertical cuts. By simplifying the typical o... | 07/11/1995 |
