Queen Victoria: connected to the royal families of Europe, and also connected to Johnson & Johnson! Public domain image of Queen Victoria courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.Ĥ. Mitchell was a friend of Company founder Robert Wood Johnson. Wells got the idea for his famous books about invisible men and time machines from early science fiction author Edward Page Mitchell, whose stories about an invisible man and a time machine predated those of Wells. Wells and Johnson & Johnson: It’s thought that H.
Tesla once worked for Thomas Alva Edison…who was a friend of Fred Kilmer. Mark Twain was also very interested in science and was a friend of Nikola Tesla. It’s been said that Twain drew his inspiration for “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” from one of Clark’s short stories. Mark Twain and Johnson & Johnson: Mark Twain was a literary rival of Max Adeler, the pen name of one of our early board of directors members, Charles Heber Clark. (The public domain photo of Thomas Edison is at this Wikimedia commons link).Ĭharles Heber Clark – connecting Johnson & Johnson to Mark TwainĢ. So what’s his connection to Johnson &Johnson? Edison was a friend of Fred Kilmer, our director of scientific affairs from 1889-1934. Thomas Alva Edison and Johnson & Johnson: Inventor Thomas Alva Edison is credited with many inventions that shaped the modern world, including the commercial electric light, the phonograph, the stock ticker and motion pictures. Public Domain photo of Thomas Edison Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin - via way of Wikimedia commons.ġ. As a company that’s more than 125 years old, Johnson & Johnson has quite a few surprising connections of its own, so here’s Six Degrees of Separation…Johnson & Johnson style. It’s a perfect example of how interconnected the world is…and how connected it is to the game’s inspiration and ultimate focal point, actor Kevin Bacon. Almost everyone has played the “Six Degrees of Separation” game at one time or another.