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 |
| 4949126 | Optical reproduction apparatus and improved bellows therefor A bellows for use in an exposure station of an electrophotographic copier or other optical reproduction apparatus. In one embodiment the bellows is a dual bellows and has one section thereof coupled to a movable lens for changing the image reduction/magni... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4238152 | Fixing device for a swing and shifting mechanism Fixing means including an operating member is provided on one of a swing portion and a shift portion and by operating the operating member to actuate said fixing means, the fixing means is engaged with the shift portion or the swing portion which is not p... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4229094 | Camera with transversely displaceable objective A camera housing carries an objective whose optical axis O is tiltable and/or transversely shiftable with respect to a reference line A passing centrally through an exposure window for adjusting the position of an object plane and/or eliminating perspecti... | 10/21/1980 |
| 4198143 | Apparatus for taking photographs of sections of crystalline lenses in which line focusing moves lens in its own plane Apparatus for photographing sections of crystalline lenses which includes a slit illumination system for illuminating a patient's eye in a slit plane and a photographing system for taking a photographs of the illuminated section of the crystalline lens at... | 04/15/1980 |
