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In a Moment of Vision...

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It's the 1920s.

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Johnson and Johnson is well-established

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for their production of large, [br]cotton gauze dressings

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that are sterile and sealed against germs,

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a first of its kind.

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An employee by the name of Earle Dickson

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is recently married to a young,[br]rather accident-prone woman.

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Her domestic cuts and burns are too minor[br]for the company's large surgical dressings

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so Earle, in a moment of vision,

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cuts a small square of the sterile gauze[br]and secures it to her finger

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with an adhesive strip.

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Earle is forced to make so many[br]of these bandages for his clumsy wife,

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he devises a method for a small[br]production of them.

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In order to keep the adhesive part[br]from sticking together,

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he lines them with a crinoline fabric.

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Johnson and Johnson begins production[br]of Earle's invention.

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In a brilliant marketing move,

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they distribute, for free, an unlimited[br]number of Band-Aids

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to all the Boy Scout Troops[br]across America.

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It doesn't take long for them to become[br]a household item.

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It is estimated that Johnson and Johnson

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has since made more than [br]100 billion Band-Aids.