8th Grade Inventor Research 2014

Dr. Jacques E. Brandenberger was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1872 and died there in 1954. 

Dr. Brandenberger was working as a textile engineer when he had the idea of inventing a clear, waterproof, protective layer for cloth.  This idea came to him while out to dinner one night when he saw a waiter having to replace the tablecloth at a nearby table because someone had spilled their wine.

By 1912, Dr. Brandenberger had also invented a machine for the production of cellophane on a large scale.

e invention of 3M's Post-it® Notes began with Art Fry's (a 3M new product development researcher, pictured above) frustration at how his scrap paper bookmarks kept falling out of his church choir hymnal

One year after its introduction, Post-it® Notes were named 3M's Outstanding new Product. And today, loyal customers can't imagine how they ever got along without them. Post-it® Notes are best sellers worldwide.

A fountain pen is a nib pen that, unlike its predecessor the dip pen, contains an internal reservoir of water-based liquid ink. The pen draws ink from the reservoir through a feed to the nib and deposits it on paper via a combination of gravity and capillary action. Filling the reservoir with ink may be achieved manually (via the use of a Pasteur pipette or syringe), or via an internal filling mechanism which creates suction (for example, through a piston mechanism) to transfer ink directly through the nib into the reservoir. Some pens employ removable reservoirs in the form of pre-filled ink cartridges. A fountain pen needs little or no pressure to write.

liest historical record of a reservoir pen dates to the 10th century. In 953, Ma'ād al-Mu'izz, the caliph of the Maghreb, demanded a pen that would not stain his hands or clothes, and was provided with a pen that held ink in a reservoir and delivered it to the nib, which could be held upside-down without leaking, as recorded i

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