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As a senior scientist working for 3M, Silver was tasked with developing new, stronger adhesives. Instead, these indestructible acrylic spheres were “strong enough to hold papers together but weak enough to allow the papers to be pulled apart again without being torn". -
At one point, he had tried to use his microspheres on a pin board, but found that dust and thread kept sticking to it.
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Art Fry needs a bookmark that will stick to his hymnal without ruining the pages, and he remembers all the seminars he had attended at 3M. Spencer Silver had created new tacky, low-adhesive microspheres, which might just work. -
The removable notes were released under the name "Press 'n Peel" in four cities. -
After a successful sampling campaign and a renaming, the sticky notes are a hit. Its iconic color was chosen by happenstance; the lab only had yellow scraps of paper left over. -
