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The history of tape

1928 Scotch Tape Richard Drew, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

Applying in the United Kingdom and the United States on May 30, 1928, Drew developed a very light, compact adhesive, and the initial attempt was not sticky, and Drew was told, "Take this thing. Get back to your Scottish bosses and ask them to put more glue!" ("Scottish" means "Hey". But during the Great Depression, people found hundreds of uses for this tape, from making up to It is useful for protecting broken eggs.

Why can sticky tape? Of course because it is coated with a layer of adhesive on the surface! The earliest adhesives came from animals and plants. In the 19th century, rubber was the main ingredient of adhesives; modern polymers are widely used. Adhesives can stick to things because of the formation of bonds between their molecules and the molecules that they are attached to, which bonds the molecules firmly together. Adhesive ingredients, according to different brands, different types, there are a variety of different polymers. Jigsaw Puzzles

In the early 1920s when the two-color car became popular, Dick Drew, a researcher at 3M, accidentally heard that the workers in the body manufacturing workshops constantly complained that the strong adhesive tape used to paint the car body caused a lot of paint peeling. , so they have to keep up the paint. He started to develop a low-viscosity adhesive tape, which is also the world's first masking tape. However, 3M's president did not want to support this plan, but Drew did not give up. He seized the opportunity of a small amount of orders and continued to carry out his own research work. A few years later, Drew invented cellophane tape. During World War II, JOHNSON & JOHNSON added waterproof coatings on its medical bandages. The jigsaw · This tape was later evolved into a world-famous duct tape. In the process of rebuilding the house after the war, it was widely used in pipeline engineering and became the adhesive tape connecting the world. This is the origin of this silver tape name.