In 1925, the world's first pressure- sensitive adhesive tape -- Scotch brand masking tape -- quietly entered the world. But the world would have to wait five years more for its inventor ...

Well, it was. Early last Friday, I pulled out my umbrella and headed off to the 2013 Scotch Brand Most Gifted Wrapper Contest at Celsius in Bryant Park.

Drew invented masking tape and it was marketed as Scotch Masking Tape in 1925. In 1929, Drew came up with the idea of using DuPont's recently invented cellophane to make tape. Cellophane was ...