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saved hundreds of thousands of lives

was first offered by Volvo in 1959.

Sticky notes are much more than simple notepads! If used correctly, they can be ultimate portable marketing tools. Sticky notes were originally marketed to workplaces, but they can now be found everywhere. At home, they come in handy for grocery lists, phone numbers, to-do lists, and reminders. They’re used in magazine advertising to highlight a new product’s advantages; if the reader desires, he or she can peel away the sticky note and take the ad. They also make great bookmarks for students! Sticky notes' functionality leads users to wonder how these little unassuming notes came about and how they are made.

Up to that point, 3M had only ever produced rolled products like adhesive tape, so the company’s engineers had to create and build new machinery to accommodate the flat pads and eventually cubes of paper. Then they had to find a way to apply the adhesive without gumming up the machinery. While this was a very expensive venture, it also gave 3M market dominance because few companies had the budget to back such an undertaking.

Fry was a member of his church’s choir and often marked pages in his hymnal with bits of paper that almost always fell out. What if he could stick the bits of paper to the pages of the hymnal without damaging the book? Dr. Silver’s glue seemed to be the answer!

Compact audio disc players, which use a laser beam, deliver sound with immense dynamic range and a startling purity.

The compact audio discs that have revolutionized high fidelity music recording will soon do the same for information storage. The new generation compacts discs will be able to hold up to 250,000 pages of text and thousands of full-color images.

Mar. 13--James T. Russell invented the digital compact disc to listen to music, but his CDs revolutionized technology.

Born in Bremerton, Wash., in 1931, Mr. Russell went to Reed College in Portland, Ore., and graduated with a degree in physics in 1953. He then joined General Electric labs in Richland, Wash.

Mr. Russell said that if the recording industry is able to organize a proper future for selling music online, the audio disc will go extinct. He invented the digital compact disc in the late 1960s after joining the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of Battelle Memorial Institute in Richland.