Scotch Tape Can Create X-Rays, and More You Didn’t Know About The Sticky Stuff People have used it to repair everything from curtains to ceilings. Kat Eschner. January 31, 2017.

In 1925, the world's first pressure- sensitive adhesive tape -- Scotch brand masking tape -- quietly entered the world. But the world would have to wait five years more for its inventor, a young ...

And airplanes, too, said Jean Sweeney, 3M business unit director for the Scotch tape brands. Four divisions of 3M use the Scotch brand product name, three of them industrial, she said.

Almanac: Cellophane tape 02:18 (CBS News) And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: September 8th, 1930, 83 years ago today . . . the day the 3M Company shipped out its first roll of ...

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By 1939, 3M had started marketing Scotch tape in the familiar snail-shaped package to allow for easy tape dispensing. Over the decades, Drew and other 3M inventors developed a wide range of other ...

Well, Scotch tape does the same thing with aplomb, folks. Simply rub the tape over the lint, and peel back carefully. #2. Use tape to pick up broken glass.

Scientists have used Scotch tape in the past to create thin materials such as graphene, a sheet of graphite made of a single layer of carbon atoms (SN: 3/10/14). Scotch tape is so useful ...