Despite the name, Scotch tape wasn’t invented by the Scottish. It was invented by a college dropout named Richard Drew from Minnesota who worked for a small sandpaper company founded in 1902 called ...

Around here, we love a good life hack ,and we’ve found the best ones typically stem from stuff you have laying around the house. Doesn’t it always seem that when we need a lint roller the most, ...

Part of a 1949 ad for Scotch tape, which was billed as a "thrifty" way to make repairs around the home. Jussi/Flickr CC Depending on who you ask, Scotch tape was first marketed on this day either in ...

As far as office supplies go, Scotch tape is pretty much the hero product. Aside from the very important business-y things we've relied on it for forever (like taping up pictures of our dogs in our ...

There are plenty of products and services that are used in place of the verb or noun, scotch tape being the name for adhesive tape. Oli joined the Latest News team in 2021, taking an interest in ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. When 3M began in 1902, they made sandpaper. Soon the sandpaper company invented a ...

Researchers from the University of Minnesota and Seoul National University have developed a new lithographic method with the help of a very low-tech tool: Scotch Magic tape. This new method, which ...

One of the most recognized products in the world—Scotch Tape—was invented by Richard G. Drew (1899–1980), a banjo-playing, engineering school dropout who had the good sense to apply for a job at 3M ...

The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce's inaugural "Coolest Thing Made in Minnesota" contest fielded more than 100,000 votes over five weeks before landing on the coolest product of all: 3M Scotch® Magic™ ...

A group of TikTokers earned a collective facepalm from other viewers for their "tire hack." Featured Video Yani (@yani.pyt) posted a TikTok that now has over 210,000 views. In it, she shows several ...