26th July 2008
The 3-M’s Corporation – Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company – allocate a percentage of their researchers’ time to pursue ‘personal ideas’ and for the company Silver’s end result has provided them with a saleable product and provided us with lots of coloured notes to stick onto anything we can – to remind us of something we might otherwise forget or be unable to find.
This policy resulted in a patent and a product that we all use.
The production of the sticky part of the notes occurred through Silvers’ knowledge of a new group of polymers that he believed
This policy resulted in a patent and a product that we all use.
The production of the sticky part of the notes occurred through Silvers’ knowledge of a new group of polymers that he believed
unusual proportions of the components into the mixture. The result was a slightly sticky product that was not really an adhesive. It was more of a cohesive and so then came the search for a use.
Another colleague, Arthur Fry, was interested in singing and was a member of his local choir. He was always needing to mark particular pages in his books with pieces of paper and they were always falling out. Maybe here was a use for something that might stick only lightly and therefore be easily removed.
Now came the task of getting the adhesive – that wasn’t very good at sticking to things – to stick to the paper onto which it was expected to remain! New machinery had to be developed and in Arthur fry’s basement the parts were assembled over a two year period until the problems had been solved.
Now came the task of getting the adhesive – that wasn’t very good at sticking to things – to stick to the paper onto which it was expected to remain! New machinery had to be developed and in Arthur fry’s basement the parts were assembled over a two year period until the problems had been solved.
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© M Mitchell 1999
© M Mitchell 1999
