Whether it ’s hold together your glasses , the TV remote or your grannie ’s birthday nowadays , Scotch taping has been one of the invariable in our lives since before we can retrieve . Today , lift your beer for its 80th birthday .
In the usual manner of age - old products , we ’re not entirely sure today is the actual 80th natal day of the cellotape ( or sticky - magnetic tape , if you will ) , though it ’s the closest thing we have to an anniversary , choke by the appointment 3 M start commercialize it .
Do you know why scotch tape is so - called , though ? As the story goes , a elevator car monger was irritated with 3 chiliad ’s thriftiness at only place adhesive leach down the sides of the tape , he labeled it “ scotch tape , ” after Scotland ’s reputation for heed its money .
While mass of companies now bring about the sticky tape measure , 3 metre ’s is believe to be the first , with the European stigma Sellotape give birth just seven year later . [ telegraph ]
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