About
Best recognized for being a factory worker during the Second World War. She was famous for her letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt where she suggested the use of adhesive tape to improve ammunition boxes. She would eventually be known for inventing duct tape.
Before Fame
She came up with the idea for duct tape in February of 1943.
Trivia
She received the Chicago Tribune's War Worker Award for her idea and was credited by Johnson and Johnson for the invention of duct tape. Vesta O. Stoudt died age 75 at the Whiteside County Nursing Home in Prophetstown, on May 9, 1966 following a long illness.
Family Life
She was the daughter of Gertrude Caroline and Ulyses Simpson Grant Wildman. She was one of five sisters. She and her husband Harry Issac Stoudt had eight children.
Associated With
She and Patricia Bath are both women that were inventors from the United States.
