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Earle Dickson, a cotton buyer for Johnson & Johnson, invented the band-aid in 1920. Apparently this was created as a solution for his wife who constantly cut her fingers while cooking dinner. Simple old gauze and tape was no match for Mrs. Dickson's culinary clumsiness, as it would always fall off (and onto the pending dinner, I assume). How unsanitary!
I do, however, find it strange that someone cuts their fingers so much as to warrant the making of a new invention. There is something else below the surface.
Type reads: Staring at the sink of blood & crushed veneer (Bon Iver).
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