American El Dixon.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Al Dickson, who worked for J&J (Johnson & Johnson) Company in the United States, experimented by making gauze and bandages together to make a bandage suitable for home use, thus making Bandages, which were previously only used in hospitals, are now being introduced into public households. Mr. Kennon, the factory supervisor of J&J Company, named it Band-Aid.

Band refers to a bandage, and Aid means to help with first aid. Later, Johnson & Johnson used Band-Aid as the name and trademark of the company's Band-Aid products.

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At the beginning of the 20th century, Mrs. El 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 a kind of coarse gauze could accomplish this task very well. After improvement by the company, it has been widely used.

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