3M's Richard Drew,Inventor of Scotch Brand Masking and Cellophane Tapes,Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame

摘要

Richard Drew,3M's legendary inventor of masking and clear cellophane tapes,was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron,Ohio,on May 4,2007.Drew,hired by 3M as a lab technician in 1921,when the company was mainly a sandpaper manufacturer,overcame myriad problems by doggedly experimenting with a huge variety of substances until he succeeded,in 1925,creating a masking tape adhesive for automobile painting that could be safely removed without damaging the surface it covered.