Duck tape

I don’t quite know what to say other than, 🤯

David Dale:

Stoudt wrote to Johnson and Johnson suggesting that they combine strips of cotton duck with a mild adhesive to create a tape that would be both durable and easily peeled […] and in 1943 its Revolite division started production on rolls of Duck Tape, designed to be ripped off by hand, not cut with scissors. In the 1950s, workmen started wrapping Duck Tape around the points where pipes joined together, and some punster starting calling it duct tape. The confusion would not have arisen if they had just christened it Stoudt Tape.