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'''Richard Gurley Drew''' (June 22, 1899 – December 14, 1980) was an [[United States|American]] inventor who worked for Johnson and Johnson, Permacel Co., and [[3M]] in [[St. Paul, Minnesota]], where he invented [[masking tape]] and [[cellophane]] tape.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/329.html |title=Richard Gurley Drew |accessdate=2008-10-22 |quote=Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Drew attended the University of Minnesota before working as a lab technician for 3M, then a sandpaper manufacturer. While delivering trial batches to the local auto body shop for testing, he noticed painters having difficulty masking car parts because the paint often peeled off when the tape was removed. Drew devised a tape of cabinetmaker’s glue and treated crepe paper. Automakers found the tape ideal for masking off areas during auto body painting and immediately began to place orders. The tape was marketed as Scotch masking tape in 1925. |publisher=[[National Inventors Hall of Fame]] }}</ref> |
'''Richard Gurley Drew''' (June 22, 1899 – December 14, 1980) was an [[United States|American]] inventor who worked for Johnson and Johnson, Permacel Co., and [[3M]] in [[St. Paul, Minnesota]], where he invented [[masking tape]] and [[cellophane]] tape.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/329.html |title=Richard Gurley Drew |accessdate=2008-10-22 |quote=Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Drew attended the University of Minnesota before working as a lab technician for 3M, then a sandpaper manufacturer. While delivering trial batches to the local auto body shop for testing, he noticed painters having difficulty masking car parts because the paint often peeled off when the tape was removed. Drew devised a tape of cabinetmaker’s glue and treated crepe paper. Automakers found the tape ideal for masking off areas during auto body painting and immediately began to place orders. The tape was marketed as Scotch masking tape in 1925. |publisher=[[National Inventors Hall of Fame]] }}</ref> |
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==Biography== |
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When Drew joined 3M in [[St. Paul, Minnesota]] in 1924, it was a modest manufacturer of [[sandpaper]]. While testing their new [[Wetordry sandpaper]] at auto shops, Drew was intrigued to learn that the two-tone auto paintjobs so popular in the [[Roaring Twenties]] were difficult to manage at the border between the two colors. In response, after two years of work in 3M's labs, Drew invented the first [[masking tape]] (1923), a two-inch-wide tan paper strip backed with a light, [[pressure sensitive adhesive]]. |
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The first tape that had adhesive along its edges but not in the middle. In its first trial run, it fell off the car and the frustrated auto painter growled at Drew, "Take this tape back to those Scotch bosses of yours and tell them to shove it!"<ref>{{cite web |
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}}</ref> (By "Scotch," he meant "parsimonious".) The nickname stuck, both to Drew's improved masking tape, and to his 1930 invention, [[Scotch Tape|Scotch Brand cellulose tape]]. |
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In 1930 he came up with the world's first transparent cellophane adhesive tape (called ''[[sellotape]]'' in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] and ''Scotch tape'' in the United States). In the aftermath of the [[Wall Street Crash of 1929]], people began using tape to repair items rather than replace them. This was the beginning of 3M’s diversification into all manner of marketplaces and helped them to flourish in spite of the [[Great Depression]]. |
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Revision as of 18:49, 15 March 2011
Richard Gurley Drew (June 22, 1899 – December 14, 1980) was an American inventor who worked for Johnson and Johnson, Permacel Co., and 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he invented masking tape and cellophane tape.[1]
Drew was stupid
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Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Drew attended the University of Minnesota before working as a lab technician for 3M, then a sandpaper manufacturer. While delivering trial batches to the local auto body shop for testing, he noticed painters having difficulty masking car parts because the paint often peeled off when the tape was removed. Drew devised a tape of cabinetmaker's glue and treated crepe paper. Automakers found the tape ideal for masking off areas during auto body painting and immediately began to place orders. The tape was marketed as Scotch masking tape in 1925.