Have you ever wondered who invented the Band-Aid? In the early 1900’s, Earle Dickson invented a solution for cuts, burns, scrapes, blisters, and bruises. His wife, Josephine Frances Knight, was the inspiration of him inventing the band aids. Dickson eventually became vice president of Johnsons & Johnsons, becauuse of his great invention.

Although, his name has somewhat been lost in history, Earle Dickson is the inventor of the band aids. In 1917 he married, Josephine Frances Knight, a wonderful women who consistently cut herself while working in the kitchen. He thought that the bandages he used to help her her were to big. Then he decided to make smaller pieces of the sterile gauze to the center of surgical tape strips. He folded gauze into a pad, unrrolled tape, laid the guaze over it, and put it down a band of crinoline, to keep the tape from sticking to itself. Josephine’s accidents mad Earl think about the idea, on how to make to make band-aids easier.

At the time,Earel Dickson was working for Johnson & Johnson as a cotton buyer in New Brunsnick, New Jersey. When Dickson mentioned his creation to the Johnsons, the Johnsons weren’t too impressed with his idea. But then when Dichson deminstrated how easily he could apply his bandage on himself, the Johnsons over-looked Earel Dickson’s new idea on band-aids,and knew it was a brillient idea. In 1924, Johnson & Johnson were producing different sizes of band-aids by machines. 15 years later in 1939, band-aids were completely sterillized. Later in 1958, band-aids were made with vinyl tape.

At first, Dickson’s Band-Aid solution wasn’t selling well, only $3,000 worth of product in the first year. This was until the company gave an unlimmited number of free band-aids to some boy scouts across the country. Band-Aids were being used worlwide! Johnson & Johnson eventually made Earle Dickson vice president of the company, because of his useful invention. He retired in 1957 and sadly later in 1961, Earle Dickson died. However, at the time, Johnson & Johnson’s worth of band-aids increased over $30,000,000 each year.

Since the early 1900’s, band-aids have improved alot. Band-Aids come in all shapes and sizes. Some band-aids come in nice, cool colors with a few designs, which come in handy after getting a shot at the doctors. However, the most improved and advansed band-aids are the waterproof band-aids. In conclusion, thanks to Earel Dickson’s brillient, most useful and helpful invention of the Band-Aids, we are able to have a blood-free, easy treatment for small cuts and scrapes.