1. In 1907, engineer Gideon Sundback got interested in improving a "hookless (无钩的) fastener(扣件)" patented in 1893.
    1907年，工程师吉迪恩·森德贝克对改进一件1893年的专利产品"无钩扣件"产生了兴趣。

2. It was supposed to do away with the tiring work of buttoning the many buttons on clothes of the day. But the fastener did not work well.
    人们认为这种扣件能够免除扣扣子的麻烦，因为当时的人们衣服上扣子很多，可当时的无钩扣件的性能并不理想。

3. For years Sundback lay awake half the night trying to solve the problem. In 1913 he designed a hookless fastener that worked.
    一连几年，森德贝克夜不能寐，试图解决这一问题。1913年，他设计了一种性能理想的无钩扣件。