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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| 5753088 | Method for making carbon nanotubes Carbon nanotubes are produced by submerging carbonaceous anode and cathode electrodes in liquid nitrogen or other suitable liquefied materials such as helium or hydrogen, and passing a direct current between the electrodes to strike a plasma arc between t... | 05/19/1998 |