You’ll never guess what a model, a sled-dog driver and Veterinarians have in common yes Duct Tape. With the help of historians, engineers and scientists forbes.com compiled a list of the 20 tools that have most impact human civilization one of them was Duct Tape; other tools highlighted on the final list have been around for ages: the knife, the abacus, the compass.

Duct Tape was invented in the early 1940s by scientists at Permacell, a division of the Johnson & Johnson Co., duct tape was built to fill the need for a strong, flexible, durable tape that could help the war effort, according to Avon, Ohio-based Henkel Consumer Adhesives, one of the world’s largest makers of the stuff. Early versions consisted of medical tape laminated to a cloth backing, covered with polycoat adhesives and a polyethylene coating. It was colored Army green and nicknamed “duck tape” because it repelled water.

Source: Wired

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