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the unsung hero holding your whole life together, one strip at a time
means a long narrow strip of material — sticky, magnetic, or cloth — used to bind, fasten, record, or measure things.
from From Old English 'tæppe,' a strip or band of cloth, with cousins in other Germanic tongues; its exact deeper roots are uncertain. For centuries it meant a woven ribbon — think red tape literally tying up legal documents — long before adhesive rolls and recording reels borrowed the name.
- space repair
- Apollo astronauts used it to fix a moon buggy
- duct myth
- It's actually terrible at sealing ducts
- nobel duct
- Graphene was first isolated using sticky tape
- wartime birth
- Duct tape was invented to seal ammo boxes
- silent star
- VHS tape once outsold movie tickets entirely
scotch tape — invented by 3m in 1930, the most widely used adhesive tape in offices and homes
duct tape — originally developed by johnson & johnson during wwii for sealing ammunition boxes
masking tape — created by 3m in 1925 for automotive painting, now standard in construction and art