3M employee and church chorister Art Fry needed something to temporarily mark pages in his hymnal. He was in luck because his colleague, Spencer Silver, accidentally developed a glue that was too weak for other purposes. After initially discouraging consumer response, Post-it Notes became a hit in 1979.
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| 7404278 | Method for producing prefillable syringes A method for producing prefillable syringes includes the steps of producing syringe bodies with a cylindrical drum portion which has a first open end for receiving a syringe plunger and has a second open end for discharging of contents. An inner surface of each syri... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7387617 | Needle shield for a glass syringe The closure stopper and the elastic retaining element are made of gas-permeable material, so that sterilizing gases can penetrate by permeation. The closure stopper is formed of a pharmaceutical rubber. In one variant, the closure stopper, the retaining element and ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7258682 | Method for manufacturing a hypodermic syringe with glued-in canula and hypodermic syringe Method for producing a syringe with a glued cannula, in which a syringe body is provided with a lubricant internally at high temperature, and either the lubricant is prevented from penetrating into a cannula receptacle of the syringe body, or the lubricant is cleare... | 08/21/2007 |