Double sided tape is how I like to roll at Christmas. Wrapping paper must have clean precise edges and corners with careful tape placement. (That's for gifts to people other than my kids, they don't ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the early 1920s, Richard Gurley Drew worked at the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, now known as 3M, which at the time made sandpaper. Drew delivered sandpaper samples to auto body shops ...