Despite the name, Scotch tape wasn’t invented by the Scottish. It was invented by a college dropout named Richard Drew from Minnesota who worked for a small sandpaper company founded in 1902 called ...

It's been used for everything from wrapping gifts to protecting blimps. It is so commonplace that it is easy to take for granted. Yet Scotch ® Transparent Tape has an extraordinary history marked with ...

Part of a 1949 ad for Scotch tape, which was billed as a "thrifty" way to make repairs around the home. Jussi/Flickr CC Depending on who you ask, Scotch tape was first marketed on this day either in ...

Around here, we love a good life hack ,and we’ve found the best ones typically stem from stuff you have laying around the house. Doesn’t it always seem that when we need a lint roller the most, ...

As far as office supplies go, Scotch tape is pretty much the hero product. Aside from the very important business-y things we've relied on it for forever (like taping up pictures of our dogs in our ...

Wes Naman, whose portraits of people with faces wrapped in Scotch tape went viral, is at it again, and this time he's using rubber bands to create creepy caricatures. The 38-year-old photographer from ...

Scotch tape is great for wrapping presents — and for science, too. With some Scotch tape and a little creativity, it’s possible to create sheets of diamond up to five centimeters wide and as less than ...

The decidedly low-tech office supply stalwart Scotch Magic tape is at the heart of a new nano-manufacturing technique that could make electrical and optical devices smaller and more advanced than ...

The new Scotch Silicone Rubber Electrical Tape 70 HDT is designed to increase resistance against surface arcing and tracking of high voltage cable terminations. The new Scotch Silicone Rubber ...