The invention of the Post-It note by 3M was one of the 20th century's great stories of unintentional product design. Two of the company's engineers came up with a mildly sticky adhesive that the ...
We see sticky stuff all around us — in our PB&J sandwiches, that bird poop that landed on your shoulder, even the drops of rain on a window. And sometimes we don’t see it at all — like the adhesive ...
No doubt many of you have spent a happy Christmas tearing away layers of wrapping paper to expose some new gadget. But did you stop to spare a thought for the “sticky-back plastic” holding your ...
Spencer F. Silver, the chemist who invented the adhesive that makes 3M’s Post-it notes stick, died May 8 at the age of 80. Silver worked at 3M for 30 years, from 1966 to 1996. He was awarded 37 ...