The tape

The simple tape can make miracles. Sometimes we don’t know how many uses has this small thing, but fortunately people have a lot of and crazy ideas for it. Tape is useful for lock some packages or boxes, also to fix dress or to make a wallet. Even we can glue poster or painting on the wall. I cannot imagine work in schools or kindergartens without it. Every time if something is broken like toy or book in the school’s library we take a one piece of tape and… abra cadabra it works again.
But who was so creative to invented the tape?

Richard Gurley Drew was born in 1899, he studied one year at the University of Minnesota in the Mechanical Engineering program, but later he left it and applied to the open position of lab technician with 3M. One of Drew's responsibilities at 3M was to deliver samples of sandpaper to local automotive shops for testing, where he often overheard workers who were painting complain about the problems with tape used for these paint jobs. Then Drew got the idea to create a new tape that would create a seal so that the paint wouldn't get through. It took him two years of experimentation, but he managed. Thus, what would be called "Scotch" Masking Tape was born in 1925.

So do you think that Richard Gurley Drew had Greek roots?