Sticky notes sticking to walls with adhesive are dropped immediately, or they can not be stuck on places where they are strange. Such a big evolution of the conventional sticky note which has not ...
Sometimes, failure sticks better than success. In 1968, a scientist at 3M tried to invent one of the strongest adhesives ever made. Instead, he created one of the weakest. That so-called mistake would ...
In 1968 Spencer Silver (PhDA&S’66), a senior chemist at 3M’s Central Research Labs, developed a peculiar adhesive. Made out of tiny bubbles, it was strong enough to hold papers together but weak ...