There ain't have been some clever banjoists!

[thereallyniceman]

A couple of weeks ago our chum Ray Jones set us a "who is it" puzzle and we all were defeated by the challenge.

Well here is a clever banjoist who changed the world with his invention:

Any ideas???

[Ray Jones]

Can you give us a clue?

[thereallyniceman]

Stick with it Ray.

[Ray Jones]

I hope that I haven't stolen anyone's thunder by saying that it looks like Gurley Drew, banjoist and inventor of  ' Scotch Tape '.    It was the mole on his nose that gave him away.  Any prizes for guessing this? 

[thereallyniceman]

Yep, and  Ray, I will award the same prize that you offered... I will have a beer later to celebrate your success :-))

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1899, Richard Gurley Drew was 22 years old and a banjo player in the local “Athletic Orchestra” when he applied for a job he saw posted in the newspaper. The Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company—a modest locally based manufacturer of sandpaper.

 

A few years later, while testing sandpaper samples at an auto body shop, Drew noticed the painters’ struggles with the plaster tape they were using. He left the shop with an idea for an alternative. He was at first encouraged—then discouraged—by 3M management when repeated trials in the lab were unsuccessful. Still, he persevered through such design challenges as premature drying of the adhesive in storage (solved by use of a rubber base) and flexibility of the backing material (solved by use of a crimped, towel-type paper). A paramount issue was the degree of adherence: it had to be strong enough to hold, easy enough to remove, and not fuse to itself when rolled. One by one, Drew found solutions.

 

His resulting invention would take the world by storm. Drew engineered the first paper backed, pressure-sensitive tape—Scotch masking tape—which hit the market in 1925. He followed up with a second breakthrough product released in 1930, transparent Scotch brand cellulose tape. His team also laid intellectual groundwork attributed to the future development of Post-it notes.