Almanac: Cellophane tape 02:18 (CBS News) And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: September 8th, 1930, 83 years ago today . . . the day the 3M Company shipped out its first roll of ...

Apparently today is Scotch tape day, celebrating the day adhesive tape was created for the first time by Richard Gurley Drew.Drew was a 3M (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company) engineer who ...

The Scotch tape - made from a cellulose-acetate sheet and an adhesive - is uniquely suited for the purpose. "It can be micromachined into different shapes and works as an inexpensive smart material ...

Scotch tape may stick quantum computing to the masses. Sept. 12, 2012, 2:57 PM EDT. By John Roach. University of Toronto physics professor Kenneth Burch with experimental apparatus and tape.

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Who knew? Actually, more than 50 years ago, some Russian scientists reported evidence of X-rays from peeling sticky tape off glass. But the new work demonstrates that you can get a lot of X-rays ...

Scientists have used Scotch tape in the past to create thin materials such as graphene, a sheet of graphite made of a single layer of carbon atoms (SN: 3/10/14). Scotch tape is so useful ...