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Sunday, January 30, 2011

POST-IT NOTES (1977)

Go ahead and admit it—you manage some part of your life with them. It was the innovation of one 3M employee, Art Fry, who needed the impossible for his church hymnal: a note tab that would permanently adhere to the page but wouldn’t flake away either. After some snooping at his 3M workplace, he found an adhesive, developed by Dr. Spencer Silver, that allowed the form of such notes to follow his function. His problem was solved and ‘‘little Post-its’’ began to take over.

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