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How Are Adhesive Sticky Note Pads and Cubes Made/Printed? - Quality Logo Products, Inc. - 0 views

  • 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!
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  • The idea for sticky notes originated by accident. Dr. Spencer Silver, a Senior Scientist in the 3M Corporation’s Research Lab, discovered a repositionable adhesive in 1968. It hadn’t been his goal to do so, because at the time 3M’s philosophy was "the stickier the better.
  • After several sample tests across the country, Post-It® Notes were launched nationwide in 1980. Nearly 30 years later, the line has expanded from the original square, canary-yellow sticky notes to 61 other colors and 25 different shapes; they now generate more than one billion dollars of revenue every year! The vast success of sticky notes is no fluke.
  • One thing is a definite: you have thousands of exciting options to choose from!
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Procter & Gamble | LinkedIn - 0 views

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    An overview on some of Proctor and Gamble's Careers and Products
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▶ The Official Fountain Pen Inventor - YouTube - 0 views

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    youtube about the inventor of fountain pen
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Nils Bohlin Invents the Modern Seatbelt - AOL On - 0 views

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    Good video on Nils Bohlin's invention on the three-point seatbelt.
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Gum Chewing is Good for the Brain | Psychology Today - 0 views

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    is chewing gum good for u? find out here
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Milton Bradley "Inventor of Milton Bradley Toys and Games" - 1 views

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    This is a power-point about him. i couldn't get it to load so I am not sure what all it has.
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Scrupuli: Who Invented the CD and the CD-ROM? - 0 views

    • Heather Purpera
       
      Jul 28, 2000 8:37 PM-James Russell thought of it in 1965 while working for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, operated by Battelle Memorial Institute for the U. S. Department of Energy. His idea, known as Optical Digital Recording (ODR), was to store information digitally on photosensitive film using a laser to record and to play back. In 1974, for his work on ODR, Russell was honored with an R&D 100 Award. By 1980 he had made the first disk player.
  • For a long time Battelle was unable to interest anyone else in ODR. Eventually Sony and Philips licensed it, established a proprietary ODR format for audio called “Compact Disc” (CD), and delivered a commercial product in 1982, followed in 1985 with a related ODR format for data called CD-ROM. Sony and Philips call these their “inventions”, misleading many into seeing Sony and Philips as visionary. They are often given sole credit for this revolutionary technology. In actuality, their contribution was to bring Russell’s system to market, and only after taking two decades to recognize its value.
  • As you might expect, Sony and Philips have made millions, and Russell himself got nothing.
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    • Heather Purpera
       
      Russell got nothing as expected yet Sony and Philips have gotten all the fame and made "millions"!!!
  • Russell invented it Fred Moody: CD-ROM Inventor Strikes Again
  • Sony and Philips co-invented it
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  • It is now 14 years since Sony and Philips launched the Compact Disc digital audio format and gave the world its first taste of digital entertain
  • Jul 28, 2000 8:37 PM–James Russell thought of it in 1965 while working for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, operated by Battelle Memorial Institute for the U. S. Department of Energy. His idea, known as Optical Digital Recording (ODR), was to store information digitally on photosensitive film using a laser to record and to play back. In 1974, for his work on ODR, Russell was honored with an R&D 100 Award. By 1980 he had made the first disk player.
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How chewing gum is made - manufacture, making, history, used, procedure, industry, mach... - 0 views

  • Kneading and rolling the gum
  • Preparing the chicle
  • Raw Mate
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  • Chewing gum is a sweetened, flavored confection composed primarily of latex, both natural and artificial. Organic latex, a milky white fluid produced by a variety of seed plants, is best known as the principle component of rubber. Used as a snack, gum has no nutritive value, and, when people have finished chewing, they generally throw it away rather than swallow it.
  • The most successful chewing gum company ever is that established by William Wrigley, Jr., in 1892. Although the company, run by the founder's son and grandson after his death in 1932, developed a wide array of flavored gums, it dropped many of these to concentrate on its biggest sellers: "Juicy Fruit," "Doublemint," and "Wrigley's Spearmint." Recently, the company introduced gum for denture wearers, sugar-free gum, cinnamon-flavored gum, and non-stick bubble gum. Like earlier Wrigley products, all have proven popular. The secrets behind the success of Wrigley gums—the company has never made anything else—are strong flavor and prominent advertising. As William Wrigley, Jr., said early in the century, "Tell 'em quick and tell 'em often."
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    about how gum is made
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Made in Kentuckiana: 'Post-it' notes | WHAS11.com Louisville - 0 views

  • They are more of a staple in offices than staples and they are made right here in Kentuckiana.
  • They are more of a staple in offices than staples and they are made right here in Kentuckiana.
  • But in reality, Post-it notes are made at a 450,000 square foot 3M manufacturing plant in Cynthiana, Kentucky just north of Lexington.
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  • Five years later, the company found a place to put that sticky…and it stuck.  Worldwide distribution began in 1980 and since then no one has quite been able to re-create it. 
  • There’s only one other Post-it plant in the world and it’s in France, which supplies Europe.  Every other Post-it note in the world comes from Cynthiana, Kentucky.  It started as a fluke in 1968 when a research scientist working for 3M – a copy machine company then – came up with the famed sticky.
  • “If you look on the back of the package, you’ll see Made in the USA,” Ann Getting, Plant Manager for 3M in Cynthiana said.  “You’ll know it was a 3M Cynthiana product.”
  • “Most people will be within three yards of a 3M product nearly all of the time, day and night,” Getting said.  “And not even know it.”
  • Now 3M makes more than 1,000 Post-it products for more than 150 countries. The original color remains the best-seller and it was a fluke too–the scrap paper that scientist used to test the sticky for the first time just happened to be yellow.
  • “We’ve been successful because of the people in Kentucky,”
  • “That’s the secret of this plant…to change and adapt to meet customer needs. We keep improving so we have a future right here in Cynthiana.” Getty said.
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Birth of an Icon: PAMPERS - YouTube - 0 views

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    A very good short documentary about Proctor and Gamble's Pampers!
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▶ Retro 1964 Milton-Bradley Commercials (Toys and Games) - YouTube - 0 views

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    A video of old commercials from his company
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▶ 06 Post It Notes: Accidental Inventions Documentary - YouTube - 0 views

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    Documentary on Post it Notes 
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Forty mobile phone facts: cellphones for dogs, 'butt-dialling' and Ernie Wise | Technol... - 1 views

  • Ten years after that first boastful phonecall they brought the portable phone to market, at a retail price of around $4,000.
  • Thirty years on, the number of mobile phone subscribers worldwide is estimated at six and a half billion. And Angry Birds games have been downloaded 1.7bn times.
  • That first portable phone was called a DynaTAC. The original model had 35 minutes of battery life and weighed one kilogram.
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  • By 2016, annual mobile phone sales are expected to rise to around 2.1bn. Most of that is attributed to Apple's plans for an iPhone for dogs.
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      Good job Apple: Fact # 38
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    This is a very good factual website about the cell phone it has forty facts and a few more tidbits in the beginning.

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Harry Wesley Coover Jr., 94, Inventor of Super Glue - NYTimes.com - 0 views

    • De Anna Jo Powell
       
      Did not become rich because he made superglue.
  • died on Saturday night at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. He was 94.
  • cause was congestive heart failure,
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  • accident
  • experimenting with acrylates for use in clear plastic gun-sights during World War II.
  • In 1951, a researcher named Fred Joyner,
  • testing hundreds of compounds looking for a temperature-resistant coating for jet cockpits
  • 910th compound on the list between two lenses on a refractometer to take a reading on the velocity of light through it,
  • could not separate the lenses.
  • Seven years later, the first incarnation of Super Glue, called Eastman 910, hit the market.
  • Dr. Coover’s secret was that he had invented Super Glue,
  • Dr. Coover was born in Newark, Del., on March 6, 1917.
  • He studied chemistry at Hobart College and then received a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Cornell University.
  • Eastman Kodak Company until he retired and then worked as a consultant. In 2004, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
  • President Obama awarded him the National Medal of Technology and Innovation
  • Dr. Coover held 460 patents by the end of his life. Nonetheless, Dr. Paul said, he didn’t mind being known by his “most outstanding” invention.
  • One of his proudest accomplishments, Dr. Paul added, was that his invention was used to treat injured soldiers during the Vietnam War.
  • Super Glue did not make Dr. Coover rich.
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