Earle Dickson

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Earle Dickson (10 October 1892—21 September 1961) was an American inventor best known for creating BAND-AID brand adhesive bandages.

Dickson was an employee at the Johnson & Johnson factory. His wife, Josephine Dickson, often cut herself in the kitchen and he found that gauze stuck to a wound with tape didn't stay on active fingers. In 1920, He took the gauze and placed it in the centre of the tape and covered it with crinoline to keep it sterile and safe. James Johnson, his boss, liked his idea and decided to manufacture it. In 1924, they installed machines to mass-produce Dickson's little bandages.

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• The story as told by Johnson & Johnson