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- Richard Drew
- invented one of
- the most useful
- pieces of office
- equipment:
- adhesive tape.
- Amazingly, it was
- not a success
- when initially
- launched. In its
- first year, only
- $33-worth of
- tape was sold
- #
- Drew's original
- masking tape was
- developed for the
- car industry; its
- successor, Scotch
- Tape, has found a
- million uses. The
- name arose when
- 3M originally put
- adhesive only on
- the edges of the
- tape. Customers
- complained: "Why
- be so 'scotch' with
- the adhesive?"
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