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2. List of glues - Wikipedia

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   Albumin glues (blood glues and egg albumin adhesive, EAA) blood (serum albumin) or eggs: prehistoric Gelatin glues hide glue, including rabbit-skin glue; bone glue, and fish glue including isinglass. Animal connective tissue. and bones hides are acid-treated, neutralized, and repeatedly soaked; the soaking-water is dried into chips hydrolyzed ...

3. List of adhesive tapes - Wikipedia

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   Adhesive is usually coated on a polypropylene or polyester film. Commonly 48 mm (1.9 in) or 72 mm (2.8 in) wide. Double-sided tape This tape has adhesive on both sides, and is used to stick two surfaces together. Duct tape Usually gray in color, this tape is backed with scrim, often coated with rubber or plastic. [1] Elastic therapeutic tape

4. Postage stamps and postal history of the United States

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   Postal service in the United States began with the delivery of stampless letters whose cost was borne by the receiving person, later encompassed pre-paid letters carried by private mail carriers and provisional post offices, and culminated in a system of universal prepayment that required all letters to bear nationally issued adhesive postage stamps.

5. Pre-adhesive mail - Wikipedia

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   Opened up 1628 lettersheet showing folds, address and seal, with letter being written on the obverse 1834 pre-adhesive mail with Wittingen straight-line town handstamp to Ebsdorf. Pre-adhesive mail, also called pre-stamp mail, are letters carried in mail systems before the issuance of postage stamps. [1]

6. Postage stamp gum - Wikipedia

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   Before postage stamps existed, people receiving letters would have to pay for them. The payment was based on how many papers were in the envelope and how far the letter had traveled. Rowland Hill came up with a solution of prepayment. This led to his invention of stamp gum in 1837. The world's first adhesive postage stamp was called the Penny ...

7. Adhesive label - Wikipedia

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   An adhesive label or sticky label is a small piece of paper designed to be affixed to any surface, [1] typically by the action of removing a layer of adhesive on the front or back of the label. The term adhesive refers to a sticky substance, while something that is self-adhesive implies that it will stick without wetting or the application of ...