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  • Most Famous Invention Sticky Post-it note sheets
  • Arthur L. Fry
  • United States
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  • Year Inducted into the
  • Inventors Hall of Fame 2010
  • Art Fry was a researcher at 3M he learned the adhesive microspheres that was developed by Spencer Silver. This microspheres were pressure-sensitive, but had a low degree of adhesion. He coated paper with the adhesive and made repositionable notes and thus he created Sticky Post-it note sheets
  • Post-it notes were released to the national market in 1980. In 1981, 3M named Post-it notes its Outstanding New Product. In 1980 and 1981, the Post-it note team received 3M's Golden Step Award, given to teams who create major new products that are significantly profitable. In 2003 the Post-it Note was a central role in a new play titled Inside a Bigger Box that premiered in New York at the 78th Street Theatre Lab
  • Arthur Fry is a retired United States inventor and scientist. He is credited as the co-creator of the Post-it note, an item of office stationery manufactured by 3M. As of 2006, Post-it note products are sold in more than 100 countries. Fry was born in Minnesota, and subsequently lived in Iowa and Kansas City. He received his early education in a one-room rural schoolhouse. During his childhood, he reputedly made his first foray into engineering by building toboggans from scrap lumber. In 1980 and 1981, the Post-it note team received 3M's Golden Step Award
  • Chad Amico on 15 Jan 14
     
    ARTHUR FRY BIOGRAPHY!?
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  • Everyone knows what the post- it notes are and  almost everyone use them in their normal life,but these amazing invention was not a planned product. Unlike other inventions no one got the idea and then stayed up many  night trying to make it happen, this was a total mistake.
  • In 1970 a scientist named Spencer Silver was working in the 3M research laboratories.He was working really hard trying to find a super stong adhesive, but instead  he developed an even weaker adhesive than what 3M already had, but he did not threw  it away.4 years passed until Arthur Fry came to the rescue!!!Arthur was singing in the church's choir and he used a paper to remind him his place in the anthom, but the reminder kept falling out of the book. He remembered Silver's adhesive,and he applied it to the paper   and it was a total success because the reminder stayed in place and he could take it out without damaging the pages or the reminder.In 1980 3M began selling  the post it notes.Even though now  you can buy the post it notes of  many colors,sizes and shapes the original ones were a small square in canary yellow color.
  • Arthur Fry was born on august of 1931 in  Minnesota, but  grew up  in a small town in Iowa and later in Kansas City. When Arthur finished school in 1950 he moved back to Minnesota to  the University of Minnesota to study majoring in Chemical Enginneering. In 1953, he began working for 3M in new project development while he was still undergraduate and worked  there until 1990. Now he has 3 children and 5 grandchildren and is very famous for a inventetion of  what is probably the most  important office supply product ever since the paperclip.
  • Chad Amico on 15 Jan 14
     
    BIO AND MORE POST IT NOTES
justin creed

Post It Note - Art Fry and Spencer Silver - 0 views

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  • The Post It Note may have been a God-sent, literally. In the early 1970s, Art Fry was in search of a bookmark for his church hymnal that would neither fall out nor damage the hymnal.
  • Fry noticed that a colleague at 3M, Doctor Spencer Silver, had developed an adhesive in 1968 that was strong enough to stick to surfaces, but left no residue after removal and could be repositioned. Arthur Fry took some of Spencer Silver's adhesive and applied it along the edge of a piece of paper. His church hymnal problem was solved!
  • Arthur Fry soon realized that his "bookmark" had other potential functions when he used it to leave a note on a work file, and co-workers kept dropping by, seeking "bookmarks" for their offices.
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  • 3M Corporation crafted the name Post It Note for Arthur Fry's new bookmarks and began production in the late 70s for commercial use.
justin creed

Accidental Invention of The Post-It® Note - 0 views

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  • In 1968 a 3M scientist developed a reusable adhesive that didn't really stick. The glue he created could hold paper together, but wasn't strong enough to maintain the bond when pulled on. Unfortunately, the scientist was trying to make a super glue. It would take 12 years and a flash of 'eureka' to turn the glue that wouldn't stick into the Post-It Note.
  • While trying to improve the adhesive that 3M used for tape, Silver discovered a less sticky glue. Ordinary adhesives are flat, with a solid contact area for adhesion. It is this unbroken contact that makes glue so sticky. What Silver found was a glue that while quite sticky, could only be formed into individual spheres the thickness of a piece of paper. The spheres would only adhere to things tangentially, thus, the adhesive's total contact area was very small. The result was a tacky, reusable glue that held paper together well. Silver knew he was on to something, but wasn't sure how to market it.
  • In attendance at one of these seminars was a 3M scientist named Arthur Fry. Fry sang in his church choir, and to keep track of the hymns, he tore scraps of paper into strips to make bookmarks. Every Sunday a few would fall out of the hymnal, frustrating Fry. In a moment of 'divine' inspiration, Fry realized that Silver's glue might make the perfect temporary adhesive to hold bookmarks! At work, Fry gathered
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  • scraps of paper and Silver's glue, and combined them to make sticky, but removable bookmarks. The bookmarks were popular and handy, but people didn't need more than a few of them.
  • In 1978 a team of 3M marketers flooded Boise, Idaho, showing everyone they could find the wondrous new notes. Post-It Notes were officially released to the public in 1980, and in 1981 they were named 3M's Outstanding New Product. Today there are over 600 products based on the Post-It concept. Arthur Fry is semi-retired from 3M, maintaining a part-time presence as a mentor. Spencer Silver retired in 1996.
  • When it became clear that Post-It Notes were viable in a commercial atmosphere, 3M's marketing went to work.
  • Fry quickly realized that his bookmark had applications as an adhesive note. Fry believed so strongly in his invention that when engineers told him that a machine didn't exist to manufacture the notes, he went home and built just such a machine in his basement. When he couldn't fit it through his basement door, he knocked the wall down. Now he had his manufacturing equipment, and a great product. The only thing he didn't have was the support of senior management at 3M. To overcome this, Fry sent samples of his notes to all the company's executives, who quickly ordered more samples. Management was quickly hooked, and their demand soon outstripped development's production capacity.
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  • They began in 1980, when a St. Paul, Minnesota, choir member's hymnal bookmarks kept falling to the floor. Chorist Arthur Fry, an engineer at chemical company 3M, joined forces with 3M scientist Spencer Silver, inventor of a peculiar adhesive that stuck poorly to surfaces. The glue provided perfect temporary fixes for paper scraps such as hymnal bookmarks
  • One year after 3M officially launched the Post-it Note, the packs of sticky paper raked in more than US$2 million in sales. Post-it Notes - available in 27 sizes, 57 colors, and 20 fragrances
  • In the 1940s, a Belgian chemist mixed carbolic acid and formaldehyde to create the first synthetic adhesive. Post-it Notes use a more recent innovation: Unlike the typical, featureless adhesive surface, the Post-it Note glue coats the notes with bumpy microspheres that limit the sticky area. The adhesive mostly consists of alkyl acrylate, a volatile liquid that dissolves slightly in water and completely in alcohol. More detailed ingredients remain private. The paper used to make Post-it Notes is certified by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, a system founded by the U.S. paper industry. Although SFI certification ensures that a company has an environmental management system in place, most environmental groups prefer the international non-profit Forest Stewardship Council's more stringent performance-based environmental and social indicators.
Chad Amico

The 3M Post-it story: Failure equals innovation. - 0 views

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  • This dilemma stems from Dr. Spence Silver's story in the 3M company's Innovation Chronicles. Silver went looking for a strong bond and found a weak one. Fascinated rather than embarrassed, he shared his results with co-workers, among them churchgoer Arthur Fry. Fry enjoyed singing Amazing Grace as much as the next guy, but he was bedeviled by the church hymnal's bookmarks. They kept falling out and making him lose his place. If only there was some way to secure the bookmark that wasn't permanent. Hey! Hello, Dr. Silver? The rest is Post-it Note
  • Chad Amico on 13 Jan 14
     
    Why post it notes were invented.
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Post-It Notes Evolve In Size And Color: Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost - 0 views

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  • Our last word in business is about a little product that requires concise writing. Thirty years ago this month, it hit stores across the country. Scientists at the office products conglomerate 3M had stumbled upon a new kind of adhesive, one that could stick to many surfaces and be pulled off easily and repositioned.
  • Since 1980, they have been a top-selling office supply. They're no longer just three-by-three inches and light yellow in color. The little sticky pads come in eight sizes, and dozens of shapes and colors.
  • heir contribution to human progress has been so great that Post-It note inventers Arthur Fry and Spencer Silver were inducted last month into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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justin creed

4 Interesting Facts About The Post-it Note | - 0 views

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  • Post-it adhesive was invented in 1968 by Dr Spencer Silver, a research scientist for 3M Company.  He had hoped to use as a spray or to produce a new bulletin board with a sticky surface, but got little interest from management. In 1974 3M Product Development Engineer Arthur Fry was singing in his church choir and his bookmark kept falling out of his hymnal causing him to lose his place.  He had attended a product demonstration by Dr Silver, and got the idea to put the new adhesive on his bookmark and the concept was born. Post-it notes are yellow because the lab next door had some yellow scrap paper that they used in the initial development, and continued using yellow paper. 3M management was not confident the product would be a commercial success.  They initially tested it under the name Press and Peel in 1977, and it did not do well.  A year later they introduced Post-it notes by giving free samples in Boise, Idaho.  The “Boise Blitz” produced a 90% reorder rate which was double the best intial rate 3M had ever seen.  Post-its were officially released throughout the US two years later.
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  • , Art Fry, another 3M scientist, tires of losing his place in the hymnal. He dreams of a bookmark that's lightly adhesive. Then he remembers Silver's adhesive, and his dream begins to become real.
  • an astonishing 90 percent of consumers who try the product say they'll buy it! 3M managers decide to press on with the product ...  
  • Post-it® Notes are launched across the US - with enormous success
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  • It would take approximately 506,880,000 Post-it® Notes to circle the world.
  • Today there are more than 600 Post-it® Products, sold in more than 100 countries. Post-it® Notes are now available in eight standard sizes, 25 shapes and 62 colours.
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  • They are those great little
  • self-stick notepapers.  Most people have Post-it®  Notes.   Most people use them.  Most people love them.  But Post-it®  Notes were not a planned product. 
  • A man named Spencer Silver was working in the 3M research laboratories in 1970 trying to find a strong adhesive.  Silver developed a new adhesive, but it was even weaker than what 3M already
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  • manufactured. 
  • No one knew what to do with the stuff, but Silver didn't discard it. 
  • Then one Sunday four years later, another 3M scientist named Arthur Fry was singing in the church's choir.  He used markers to keep his place in the hymnal, but they kept falling out of the book.  Remembering Silver's adhesive, Fry used some to coat his markers.  Success!  With the weak adhesive, the markers stayed in place, yet lifted off without damaging the pages.  3M began distributing Post-it ® Notes nationwide in 1980 -- ten years after Silver developed the super weak adhesive.  Today they are one of the most popular office products available.
Chad Amico

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Arthur Fry Post it Notes History

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    Just a few facts about how post it notes were invented
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