This year marks the 100th anniversary of Scotch™ Brand, celebrating a legacy of breakthrough innovation that began in 1925 with the creation of Scotch Masking Tape to help auto-body painters detail ...

Drew invented masking tape and it was marketed as Scotch Masking Tape in 1925. In 1929, Drew came up with the idea of using DuPont's recently invented cellophane to make tape.

Apparently today is Scotch tape day, celebrating the day adhesive tape was created for the first time by Richard Gurley Drew. Drew was a 3M (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company) engineer ...