Did You Know...
...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6939601 | Clear lacquer coat Clear coat layer obtainable by: (I) applying an unpigmented intermediate coat to a substrate to be coated; (II) crosslinking the intermediate coat and forming an intermediate coat layer; (III) appl... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6559220 | Water-dilutable stone impact protection paint and compensation paint, their use and process for their production The invention relates to the preparation of a water-dilutable stone impact protection and of a compensation paint and its use and processes for their production, especially in the automobile industry. The water-dilutable stone impact protection paint cont... | 05/06/2003 |
