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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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4490590 | Switching system with grounding device The disclosed switching system comprises a circuit breaker, a grounding device, a locking device for the grounding device, and a fluid filled axially movable cylinder connected at one end to the circuit breaker and including at the other end a spring load... | 12/25/1984 |
