Flymo Flymo Flymo is a hover mower invented by Karl Dahlman. Dahlman invented the mower in 1964 after seeing Sir Christopher Cockerell's Hovercraft machine. "Flymo" is a brand name of the Swedish company Husqvarna AB, formerly a part of Electrolux. The mower is a variation of conventional petrol powered rotary push lawn mowers that uses a fan above the mower's spinning blades to allow the mower to "hover". Flymo mowers are powered rotary push lawn mowers that use a fan above the spinning blades to drive air downwards, thereby creating an air cushion that lifts the mower off the ground like
Band-Aid Band-Aid Band-Aid is a brand of adhesive bandages distributed by the American pharmaceutical and medical-devices company Johnson & Johnson. Invented in 1920, the brand has become a generic term for adhesive bandages in the United States. The Band-Aid was invented in 1920 by a Johnson & Johnson employee, Earle Dickson in Highland Park, New Jersey for his wife Josephine, who frequently cut and burned herself while cooking. The prototype allowed her to dress her wounds without assistance. Dickson passed the idea on to his employer, which went on to produce and market the product as the Band-Aid. Dickson had a