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How has he transformed the scene?

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1899, Richard Gurley Drew was 22 years old and a banjo player in the local “Athletic Orchestra” when he applied for a job he saw posted in the newspaper. The Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company—a modest locally based manufacturer of sandpaper— was looking for a lab technician. In his letter of application, young Drew noted his banjo playing, his year as a Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Minnesota, the correspondence school course he was taking in machine design, and his experience driving a tractor. He was hired.

“He created a greenhouse environment, a skunkworks, where we could do anything, try anything. When you’re an oddball in a permissive environment, very often things turn out well.”

Paul Hanson, retired 3M technical director, (in) A Century of Innovation – The 3M Story

A few years later, while testing sandpaper samples at an auto body shop, Drew noticed the painters’ struggles with the plaster tape they were using. He left the shop with an idea for an alternative. He was at fi

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Richard Gurley Drew

Richard Drew invented masking tape and transparent cellophane tape, the first modern pressure sensitive tapes.

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Drew attended the University of Minnesota before working as a lab technician for 3M, then a sandpaper manufacturer. While delivering trial batches of sandpaper to the local auto body shop for testing, he noticed painters having difficulty masking car parts because the paint peeled off when the tape was removed. Drew devised a tape of cabinetmaker's glue and treated crepe paper. Automakers found the tape ideal for masking off areas during auto body painting and immediately began to place orders. The tape was marketed as Scotch® masking tape in 1925.

Five years later, Drew developed the transparent Scotch® cellophane tape. The invention was a major asset during the Great Depression. It became a popular tool for repairing ripped, torn, or broken items rather than buying new ones. Books, window shades, toys, clothing, and even paper currency were mended with cellophane tape.

Drew's tape innovations were the first in a fam

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Richard G. Drew

Richard G. Drew invented one of the most practical items to be found in any home or office: transparent adhesive tape.

Drew was born on June 22, 1899 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He completed just a year of mechanical engineering studies at the University of Minnesota and was a banjo player in a local orchestra when he applied for a lab technician job. Drew joined 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1923, a modest manufacturer of sandpaper. Drew tested their new "Wetordry" sandpaper, the world’s first water-resistant coated abrasive. Automobile manufacturers could use the product with water to reduce dust and decrease the friction that often ruined auto finishes. While doing this testing, Drew was intrigued to learn that the two-tone car paint jobs so popular in the Roaring Twenties were difficult to manage at the border between the two colors. In response, after two years of work in 3M's labs, Drew invented the first masking tape in 1925. It was a two-inch-wide tan paper strip backed with a light, pressure-sensitive adhesive.

The first tape had adhe