Health History | Johnson and Johnson — The Wallpaper Factory Floor in New Brunswick
· 1886-3
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Health History | Johnson and Johnson — The Wallpaper Factory Floor in New Brunswick
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People treat Johnson & Johnson as a glass plaza that arrived already named Band-Aid.
The first rented floor was here, in the former Janeway & Carpender wallpaper factory in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1886.
James Wood Johnson was on a westbound Pennsylvania Railroad train from New York to Philadelphia that January when he saw a for-rent sign from the window. He got off at New Brunswick, walked the lot, and took the top floor. Robert Wood Johnson and Edward Mead Johnson joined him. The New Brunswick Times of 3 March 1886 ran the headline "A New Factory."
The brothers had heard Joseph Lister lecture on antiseptic surgery at the 1876 Philadelphia world's fair. The first products were sterilised gauze, absorbent cotton, sponges and sutures — dressings a hospital could trust because they had been packed already clean.
The company never left the city. The later plaza at One Johnson & Johnson Plaza stands on the same town that the wallpaper loft first rented. Baby powder and the Band-Aid came later. The first work was surgical cotton on a rented factory floor beside the railroad.
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