{"id":5420,"date":"2011-05-11T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=5420"},"modified":"2011-11-08T23:11:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T07:11:39","slug":"what-duct-tape-is-made-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/what-duct-tape-is-made-of\/","title":{"rendered":"What Duct Tape is Made Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/where-duct-tape-came-from.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5421\" title=\"where-duct-tape-came-from\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/where-duct-tape-came-from.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/where-duct-tape-came-from.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/where-duct-tape-came-from-340x274.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p>Duct tape is composed of three layers.\u00a0 The top layer is a plastic, polyethelyne; the middle layer is a fabric mesh; the bottom layer is a rubber-based, pressure sensitive adhesive.\u00a0 It was originally manufactured simply by pressing these three layers together and was named &#8220;Duck Tape&#8221;, not &#8220;Duct Tape&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 It was invented by Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s Permacel division during WWII for the military.\u00a0 The military specifically needed a waterproof tape that could be used to keep moisture out of ammunition cases.\u00a0 This is why the originally Duct Tape came only in army green.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Duct Tape Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/duct-tape-was-originally-named-duck-tape-and-came-in-green-not-silver\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Duct Tape Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Duct tape is composed of three layers.\u00a0 The top layer is a plastic, polyethelyne; the middle layer is a fabric mesh; the bottom layer is a rubber-based, pressure sensitive adhesive.\u00a0 It was originally manufactured simply by pressing these three layers together and was named &#8220;Duck Tape&#8221;, not &#8220;Duct Tape&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 It was invented by Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s Permacel division during [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1345],"class_list":["post-5420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-duct-tape-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7156,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions\/7156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}