Boston.com - In the 1940s, the tale goes, the US military asked Johnson & Johnson to come up with “a waterproof, strong cloth based tape that could keep moisture out of ammunition cases.” The tape J&J produced was (allegedly) called “duck tape,” either because its cloth base was cotton duck (a plain-weave fabric, lighter than canvas) or because it repelled water (as in “off a duck’s back”). “Duck tape,” by this account, became “duct tape” only during the postwar building boom, when its chief use became taping heating ducts.
There are only a few things duct tape can't mend, such as a flat tire or a broken heart. Besides the internet, duck/duct tape is hands down the greatest invention this millennium*
*- better inventions this millennium
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