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 |
| 5311255 | Real-time diagnostic system for detecting non-linear movement of an imaging member using optical fibers A diagnostic method and apparatus for use in an electronic printer or reproduction machine having a movable imaging member capable of receiving an image from a modulated light source. A plurality of light sources are mounted adjacent the imaging member. E... | 05/10/1994 |
| 4573129 | Automatic pen-sensor A bi-directional pen plotter includes two pen stables and a pen holder located between the two pen stables for snatching a pen from either pen stable and for inserting a pen into either pen stable. There are four distinct stops to the motion of the pen ho... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4310844 | Method and apparatus for detecting the working state of a printing press or the like A method of detecting the lengths of normal operation time and downtime, and at least approximate causes for downtime, of a printing press during each preassigned period of production time. During the progress of each production period there are derived f... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4232335 | Numerical control tape preparation machine A memory device is provided for measuring the displacements of a table movable in two directions mutually perpendicular to each other and storing the displacements. In case of the measurement of table positioning data, the data measurement may be made wit... | 11/04/1980 |
| 4131918 | Providing control signals for machine operations There is described a method of guiding a machine as it moves relative to a surface, which is preferably the surface of a workpiece on which the machine is working, by selectively magnetizing a layer of magnetic material provided at or close to the surface... | 12/26/1978 |
| 3967235 | Acoustic velocity logging system An acoustic velocity logging tool employs a transmitter and a pair of receivers. Acoustic pulses from the transmitter pass through the formation surrounding the borehole to the receivers. The received signals, along with control signals, are transferred t... | 06/29/1976 |
