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 |
| 6594499 | Downlink power control in a cellular telecommunications network A power control system method for controlling the downlink (DL) transmit power from a base station (BS) to a mobile station (MS) in a cellular telecommunications network. A power balancing value ƊP is divided into a number of smaller correction implement... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6166622 | Time slot structure for improved TPC estimation in WCDMA A communication circuit is designed with a processing circuit (11) coupled to receive a plurality of first control signals (402, 408) from a source external to the communication circuit. The processing circuit produces a second control signal (432, 434) a... | 12/26/2000 |
| 4088980 | Warning display system for vehicles A warning display system provides a warning when it detects an abnormal condition in an operating element closely related to the safe operation of a vehicle. An abnormal condition of an operating element is detected by one of a plurality of sensors each p... | 05/09/1978 |
