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 |
| 5220872 | Apparatus for separating contaminated material from impurities contained therein Described is an apparatus for separating contaminated material from impurities contained therein, by heating by means of hot gases. The apparatus has receiving chambers for accommodating the contaimated materials, and heating chambers which surround the r... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5110338 | Method and apparatus for heating a glass sheet An apparatus (10) is disclosed for treating a glass sheet (22) including a substantially enclosed chamber (14) containing a chamber atmosphere (24) in which the glass sheet (22) may be treated. Apparatus (10) also includes gas turbine engine (12) which ge... | 05/05/1992 |
| 4137648 | Driers for textile materials A machine for drying textile materials, which comprises a casing, electrically driven means for feeding the textile material through the casing, electrically driven means for circulating hot gas within the casing, a gas turbine engine, an alternator drive... | 02/06/1979 |
| 3986820 | Method and apparatus for burning multiphase gypsum An apparatus for preparing multiphase gypsum and particularly wall plaster which has an exactly defined composition comprises a plurality of heating stages including at least one high temperature stage and at least two first and second separate low temper... | 10/19/1976 |
