Post-It+Notes

Post-it Not//es//
//Who Invented? // Post-it notes was invented by two people, Spencer Silver who had a PhD in Organic Chemistry and Arthur Fry who was a church choir singer.

//How did the idea come? // One night Spencer Silver was trying to improve a newer version of tape but failed the result was tacky reusable glue that held paper together well. Silver knew he was one to something but didn’t know how to mark it.

Arthur Fry kept pieces of paper in his bible for bookmarks but it was no use because it kept falling out. He kept thinking about how to make a bookmark stay in place when he heard of Silver’s glue. At work, Fry took Silver’s glue and put it on pieces of paper to make sticky but reusable bookmarks. Fry was so proud of his invention and engineers kept telling him that there would be no machine to manufacture them, to prove them wrong he went home and built the machine in his basement and was a great success. Fry sent his samples of his notes to company executives.

//Post-its are a success! // Post-it notes were viable in the commercial atmosphere the marketing went to work. The Post-it notes were release in 1980 and today they are still very popular.

//How is this good science? // Everything just came to an accident, Silver was trying to make a better tape but ended up making glue, but it was Fry who saw a great invention and kept working on it to make it better.

//Reference: // (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.vat19.com/brain-candy/accidental-inventions-post-it-notes.cfm


 * By: Clare Penfield **