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In 1923, tape pioneer Richard Gurley Drew at 3M invented masking tape, a paper-based tape with a mildly sticky adhesive intended to be temporarily used and removed rather than left in place permanently.
According to Johnson & Johnson’s website, the original green sticky cloth tape got its name during world war II when soldiers started calling it duck tape for the way liquids seem to roll off like water off a duck’s back.
Meet the determined woman who invented duct tape. The iconic product has been around for 75 years. Learn about the “aha” moment that sparked the idea for its creation, the U.S. president who pushed it forward—and how Johnson & Johnson helped bring it to market.
Duct tape is one of the most versatile tools ever invented, but do you know its fascinating origins? In this video, we dive into the history of duct tape, from its invention during World War...
Duct tape was created during World War II by a woman named Vesta Stoudt. She was working at the Green River Ordnance Plant near Amboy, Illinois (and had two sons serving in the U.S. Navy) when she noticed that the ammunition boxes she was tasked with packing and inspecting had.
Duct tape was invented by Vesta Stoudt, a woman who had the idea to combine adhesive, fiber, and polyethylene to create a waterproof sticky strap. After her invention, Johnson & Johnson produced the first commercial duct tape in 1943, which was initially used for military purposes.
The story of duct tape begins in the early 1940s, when Johnson & Johnson developed a water-resistant adhesive tape called “duck tape.” This material was designed to keep moisture out of ammunition boxes and was made of cotton duck fabric coated with a natural rubber-based adhesive.
Origins of Duct Tape (1920s): During the 1920s, a Minnesota-based company called 3M, originally known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, sought to create a product that could effectively seal ammunition cases for the U.S. military during World War II.
The idea for Duct Tape came from Green River, Illinois, Ordnance Plant Quality Inspector Vesta Stoudt, who saw a need for a military-grade, waterproof tape during World War II. To get her idea off the ground, she wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Duct tape was directly inspired by surgical tape, but an equally valid claim to its parenthood belongs to masking tape and cellophane tape, both developed in the 1920s by Richard Drew of 3M. Drew first created a paper-backed masking tape to protect parts of a surface during painting.