In case you’ve lived in a cave most of your life, here’s the kind of tape we are talking about. (“ Duck Tape ” by Evan-Amos.) Duck tape didn’t get really famous, though, until World War II.

Actually, the original duck tape wasn’t adhesive at all. It was simply strips of cotton duck used for several purposes, including making shoes and wrapping steel cables like the ones placed in ...

Jack Kahl joins the duct tape manufacturing company Melvin A. Anderson in Cleveland and raises public awareness of the versatile product, raising sales from $80,000 a year to $800,000.

The contest challenges students to create prom wear using Duck Brand tape to win $15,000. It took Holland six months and about 35 rolls of hot pink duct tape to transform her sketch into reality.

Berry Plastics alone sells roughly 35 different types of duct tape under the Nashua and Polyken names—so after our research, we asked the major brands (Intertape, Duck, Scotch, Nashua, and ...

The tape was originally called duck tape because of its water-resistant qualities. It repelled water like a duck's back, and it used to be made out of a cotton duck fabric without any adhesive layers.