Finish the following sentence, I am stuck on Band-Aid.

And if you immediately sank, because Band-Aid stuck on me,

congratulations, you have a 50-year-old ad campaign living rent free in your head.

A staple of every first aid kit, Band-Aids are a quick and convenient solution to all minor cuts,

scrapes, burns, and other boo-boos life can dish out.

Indeed, so fully have these little sticking

plaster's permeated popular culture that the Band-Aid lent its name to the 1984 charity

supergroup behind the hit song, Do They Know It's Christmas, while the term Band-Aid solution

has entered the lexicon as a byword for temporary, often slapdash repairs. But while the idea

of a gauze pad attached to a strip of adhesive

tape might seem so basic that it must have existed forever, as we covered in our previous video,

who invented duct tape, even the simplest inventions have to come from somewhere, and surprisingly,

the idea of self-adhesive bandages is only a little over a century old.

The story of how this simple idea went from home remedy to household name is one of a

klutzy housewife, a devoted husband, tireless innovation, and clever marketing.

This is the fascinating story of the Band-Aid.

Our story begins with one Earl Ensign Dixon born on October 10,

1892 in Grandview, Tennessee. The firstborn of Massachusetts-born physician Dr. Richard

Ensign and his Connecticut-born wife, Hester Dixon, Earl was raised as an only child after his

younger brother, Mark, died in infancy because the past was the worst. At some point in the mid-1910s,

Earl moved to Highland Park, New Jersey, where he found work as a cotton buyer at the giant

medical supplies firm of Johnson & Johnson. This famed company's origins date back to 1876 when

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