Military History Society of Rochester - Vesta Stoudt Born April 13, 1891 d. 1965 American inventor. Vesta Stoudt invented duck tape. While working at an ordnance plant during World War II, she
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Ross Lowell, the man who invented the gaffer tape you keep in your gigbag, has died aged 92 | MusicRadar
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