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 ...

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.

In fact, more than 900 tape varieties have been developed by the St. Paul, Minn.-based company since the first masking tape came out in 1925. The story of the tape’s invention goes like this.

(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 cellophane tape. A research team led ...

When 3M began in 1902, they made sandpaper. Soon the sandpaper company invented a line of products that changed household life around the world. 3M’s Scotch brand masking tape and cellophane ...

Engineers call the glue in Scotch tape a pressure-sensitive adhesive. It does not stick by forming chemical bonds with the material it is placed on, says Alphonsus Pocius, a scientist at the 3M ...

Here, 5 smart and surprising uses for Scotch tape! #1. Use tape as a lint roller replacement. Doesn’t it always seem that when we need a lint roller the most, there’s never one in sight?

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).