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==Badge history==

BSA changes the design, name, and availability of merit badges depending on factors such as their popularity and changes in society (such as the shift from an agriculture based society to an industrial based society in 20th century America). Of the original 57 merit badges from [[1911]], only 11 are still available that also still have the same basic motif/design (Architecture, Art, Athletics, Chemistry, First Aid, Lifesaving, Music, Plumbing, Public Health, Scholarship, and Surveying). Of those 11, only five were made available in each "generation" of the 10 merit badge types (these are Architecture, Art, Chemistry, Plumbing, and Public Health). The remaining six havewere not been reproduced in thea mostshort recentlived "generation" of merit badges, [[#Type I|Type I]].

The merit badges on the required list for Eagle rank have changed several times. "First Aid" is the only merit badge that has always been on the required list for Eagle.