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 |
| 6904689 | Guide device A guide device for cutting lap joints includes a frame and a rectilinear guide member, the frame having a Y-like shape and consisting of a removable top portion and a bottom portion forming a yoke therebetween at the upper portion of the Y-like frame. The lower port... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6758016 | Adjustable support for steps A support for steps, having the shape of a triangular corner plate to be installed one after the other along a stringer. The sides of this support are reinforced, horizontally and vertically by a 90 degree fold, to fix the steps and risers. The ends are wider and po... | 07/06/2004 |
| 4864734 | Scale stabilzer A scale holder is provided for securely retaining a scale to permit various measurements to be made. The scale holder includes orthogonally disposed major and minor planar walls on which the scale holder can be securely supported. The scale holder further... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4835877 | Try square protractor A combined try square and protractor is structured to measure a right angle, to measure center of a pipe and to measure various angles therefrom.... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4352247 | Square level for drawing angles and parallels A square for plotting angles, parallels, and polygonal shapes on the circular surface of a cylindrical body. The square includes a pair of contact arms forming a right angle, and a center arm forming a bisector of the right angle. A protractor frame is sl... | 10/05/1982 |
