BY: SHAUNA DAMPIER

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• BY SHAUNA DAMPIER

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The People Held Responsible for the Invention of
the Band-Aid
Thanks josephine and earle!
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1920
Band-aid Brand Adhesive Bandages make their
first appearance on the market. They are made by
hand and not a big hit. They were three inches
wide and eighteen inches long. Only 3,000 worth
were sold that year.
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Band-aid Brand introduces the first machine made
adhesive bandage. They are completely sterilized.
1924
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1940
The little red string used to open band-aid
Brand wrappers makes its first appearance.
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1942 Millions of adhesive bandages go overseas
as part of the war effort.
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1951 Band-aid brand plastic strips are
introduced.
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1956
Band-aid brand brings out the first decorated
adhesive bandage.
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1958
Bandages are finally produced in a sheer vinyl.
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1963
For the first time in history the band-aid brand
bandage is sent into space with the astronauts to
visit the planet mercury
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Before brook shields became suddenly susan, she
appeared in a band-aid brand comercial. 1971
John travolta appears in a band-aid brand
commercial ever before he became big shot
Saturday night fever, and grease.
1975
Chris evert, three-time wimbeldon and sixtime
U.s. open champion, appears in a band-aid
television commercial. 1982
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The first sport strip band-aid is introduced and
put on the market.
1994
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1995
75th anniversary
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1997 Band-aid brand introduces the first
antibiotic adhesive bandages
2000 The band-aid with advanced healing finds its
way onto the shelves
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2001
Over one hundred billion band-aid brand bandages
have been made to date and band-aid.com is
launched!
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2002 Introduces the revolutionary liquid band-aid
bandage
2003 Scar healing, a hospital technology thats
clinically proven to flatten and fade red and
raised scars
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Kids
Band-aids Good for every classroom teacher!
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RESOURCES

• Retrieved November 5, 2004 from the World Wide
  Web http//www.bandaid.com/index2.html
• Retrieved November 5, 2004 from the World Wide
  Web http//www.savetz.com/bandaid/