{"id":15884,"date":"2026-05-27T00:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=15884"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:47:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:47:58","slug":"masking-tape-was-patented-by-richard-gurley-drew-in-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=15884","title":{"rendered":"Masking Tape Was Patented by Richard Gurley Drew in 1930"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Masking tape was patented by Richard Gurley Drew in 1930.<\/strong> He responded to the needs of automobile painters who wanted a tape that would not remove new paint. He combined crepe paper with an adhesive. He was working for 3M and ultimately received over 30 patents, including a patent for transparent tape. Children can view the patent application, Patent Number 1760820A, at: <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US1760820A\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Masking Tape Patent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masking tape was patented by Richard Gurley Drew in 1930. He responded to the needs of automobile painters who wanted a tape that would not remove new paint. He combined crepe paper with an adhesive. He was working for 3M and ultimately received over 30 patents, including a patent for transparent tape. Children can view <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=15884' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5324,2220,2217,2218,5578,2219],"class_list":["post-15884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5324","tag-3m","tag-masking-tape","tag-masking-tape-patent","tag-may-27","tag-richard-gurley-drew","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15884"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27544,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15884\/revisions\/27544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}