Modern blinds were invented by an American named John Hampson and he obtained a patent for the invention on August 21, 1841. The Invention of Band-Aid At the beginning of the 20th century, Mrs. Elle Dixon was newly married and had no experience in cooking. She often cut her hands or burned herself in the kitchen. Earl Dixon was working for a company that produced surgical bandages, and he quickly became adept at bandaging his wife. He thought it would be nice if there was a kind of bandage that his wife could bandage herself when she was injured and no one could help. So, he began to experiment. He considered that if gauze and bandage were made together, the wound could be bandaged with one hand. He took a piece of gauze and placed it on the table, applied glue on it, then folded the other piece of gauze into a gauze pad and placed it in the middle of the bandage. But there is a problem. The adhesive used to make this kind of bandage will dry out if it is exposed to the air for a long time. Dixon tried many different fabrics to cover the tape, hoping to find one that would not be difficult to remove when needed. Later he discovered that coarse gauze worked well for the task. When Mrs. Dixon cut her hand again, she took off the coarse gauze herself and applied the bandage invented by her clever husband to the wound. Dickson's invention of this prepared bandage made the American company J&J (Johnson & Johnson) where he worked developed. Mr. Kennon, the director of the factory, named it Band-Aid. Band refers to a bandage, and Aid means to help with first aid. From then on, J&J Company used Band-Aid as the name of various first-aid and surgical bandage products, and later became a synonym for bandages.