[Ads-l] duck tape, antedated?

Stephen Goranson 0000179d4093b2d6-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Fri May 16 20:01:58 UTC 2025


A NYT obituary of Ed Smylie, who saved Apollo astronauts by proposing a contraption using duct tape, reminds  me of the earlier (?) duck tape. Searching seemed inadequate for what I recall.
So, maybe, maybe not:

"...use a heavy duck tape..."

The Electrical world v. 24 (1894)
page 79 , col. 2

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101048865586&seq=95&q1=%22duck+tape%22


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