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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| 7557539 | Charging device A charging device including an assembled battery having plural secondary batteries serially connected, a charge power source unit which supplies charging current to both ends of said assembled battery having plural secondary batteries serially connected, and plural ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 5786105 | Solid oxide fuel cell A solid oxide fuel cell which includes a substrate having therein a plurality of gas supply passages and a plurality of gas return passages. The gas supply passages have inlet ports on a surface of the substrate and the gas return passages have outlet por... | 07/28/1998 |