Adhesive tape called because of the stinginess of the Scots. In English, “scotch” means “Scottish”, “Scottish”. Also called whiskey. Usually, when we talk about tape, I mean duct tape. Further in our article the story of the emergence of such a tape and its name.
Tape was not invented by the Scot, and this did not happen in Scotland. It was invented in America, and it happened thus. In 1923 Richard drew settled down to work at a company that produced sandpaper. The company Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (now it is already a Corporation called 3M)