It all started when one night last winter Mrs. Philip Burnham of Wilmington, Del. could not go to the Red Cross to fold bandages. Mr. Burnham went instead. Delaware bandage-folding has not been the same since.
Mr. Burnham is an architect-engineer for Du Pont. He was bored stiff by the hand work of reducing 16-inch squares of gauze to four-inch sponges—at four minutes to a sponge. He went home and said so. Then in self-defense he invented a semi-automatic bandage folder that would do the job in one minute. The device was made of wallboard, hinged with cloth tape, and was worth...
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