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Richard Drew was an
American inventor who worked for
3M in
St. Paul, Minnesota, where he invented
masking tape and cellophane tape. In
1925 he solved the problem his local garage was having when applying two different colors to vehicles. Drew's answer to this problem was to invent the first
masking tape, which allowed crisp neat lines between the colors. Not one to rest on his laurels in
1930 he came up with the world's first transparent
cellophane adhesive tape (called
sellotape in the
UK and
scotch tape in the United States). In the aftermath of the
1929 Wall Street stock-market crash, when times were hard, people used a little bit of tape to repair those items that one couldn’t afford to replace. This was the beginning of 3M’s diversification into all manner of marketplaces and was the backbone on which they flourished despite the
Great Depression.
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