In , 3M distributed Post-it Notes nationwide, and today, the average working professional receives 11 messages via Post-it per day, according to the company. Here are three design elements that helped make the Post-it a must have for practically every office-supply closet in America.
Though Silver didn't realize there was value in the new type of adhesive he had created, Fry immediately saw Post-it Notes as a solution to a different problem. A weekly churchgoer, Fry's paper bookmarks he used to find hymns were always falling out of hymnals between practice on Wednesday and church service on Sunday.
Post-it Notes solved this by sticking to the paper but importantly not damaging the pages. The beauty of Post-it Notes is how easy they are to use. The adhesive doesn't require licking, like envelopes, nor does it need a special peel-away wax paper to remain sticky. Silver remembers the early days of using her husband's invention at her job as a computer programmer.
She used the Post-it Notes to mark bugs in the printed off programme, instead of using a paperclip. Soon, her colleagues realized they needed Post-it Notes too. Her husband once described his invention as a "solution waiting for a problem. Silver retired as a corporate scientist in , with 37 patents, including the adhesive, to his name. Silver says after her husband retired he embraced his love of painting. He had always painted part time, but later in life he began to push himself and experiment with the abstract.
He thought it was all part of the same thing — creativity and creating things in art and pushing his art," she said. I think this country is going to be OK. Produced by Katie Geleff. As It Happens Inventor of Post-it Note adhesive made something people didn't know they needed, says wife Spencer Silver, the inventor of the adhesive used on one of 3M's best-known products, the Post-it Note, died May 8.
The story of the Post-it -- the self-attaching note that adheres in such a way that it can be removed without causing damage -- begins in Spencer Silver, a chemist for the giant multinational Minnesotan company 3M , was attempting to develop a better adhesive. What he came up with were microspheres, which retained their stickiness and had a "removability characteristic," allowing attached surfaces to be peeled apart easily. For years he struggled to find a use for his invention, preaching the merits of his creation to unreceptive colleagues.
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