Art Fry, Post-it , Cronic

There is a story behine the day that Dr Spencer Silver and Arthur Fry joined their minds and created Post-it notes...
Art Fry was in a workshop where Dr Spencer Silver was te teacher . Silver worked for 3M company and he had been trying to to create a super-stronge adhesive , but it was not completely ready to get out to the public. So he asked , Art Fry to help him to create the adhesive. When they were in the 3M's labority where the workers had all the instruments , to create a new invention for seling. When they were trying all te adhesive in some papers , Art Fry only but a little in the border of the paper because that he will confuse all of them . He was smart enough to notice that he had just created something that they were not even trying to .

Art , Spencer and 3M gave some examples of the Post-it notes that they had just created but they people that were trying it did not like it , because they tought that the papers had to much adhesive and that it was really hard for a common secretary to take one so easily. Years passed , and they tired their best to make the Post.it notes the mast boject out ther to sell. In 1980 they were competely sure that people will like them , because they had the exxact amout of adhesive that was needed and use yellow as it color , because wa Spencer's favorite color and because they told , that it was the best color that was not white , that if any color of pen or pencil was used they would see it .

Description Of The Invention

Art Fry's invention is useful for office worker or any type of workers that are willing to leave a little note maybe to remember something or to tell someone something . It was first a 3in paper and only in yellow but now it can have many differenet sizes so you can write bigger things or more thing and also you can choose in different color depending in what is it that you like , or if you can not use bright colors you can choose a dark one , like dark blue .

This was an invention that make easier the life of those people that take a lot of notes in their jobs but a notebook will be to big and difficult to carry every where and if they took a paper out of it , the notebook could look incomplete or disorganize . It will be a total mess to have all the big papers from a notebook in you desk. That is where the Post-it notes come , they are small and they stick to things and are easy to carry , they are basically the solution for almost every problem that notebooks had.

Post-it

In 1968, Dr. Spencer Silver , a scientist in 3M , was attempting to develop a super-strong adhesive , but instead he accidentally created a low.tack, but in 1974 a colleague of his , Art Fry, came up with the idea of using the adhesive to anchor his bookmark in his hymnbook. In 1977 they but the product out to the public in 4 cities under the name "Press 'n Peel" but its results were disappoinnting. A year passed and in 1978 , 3M gave free examples to some persons and 94% of them would buy the product. In 1980 the product was know out in stores as Post-It Notes in United States and in 1981 Post-it was launched to Canada and Europe.

A post-it note or sticky note, is a piece of paper with a re-adherable strip on the back. Now a days you can find it in different sizes and colors but originaly it was a 3in yellow paper. It was invented by invented by Dr. Spencer Silver and co-created by Art Fry.

Arthur Fry - Biography

          Arthur Fry , also known as Art fry , is an inventor and a scientist. He is co-creator of post-it. He was born in Minnesota ( born 19 August 1931) but he grew up in  a small town located in Iowa and later in Kansas city. He finished his education in 1950 and moved back to Minnesota. Arthur went to the university of Minnesota majority in Chemical Engineering.  In 1953 he started working for 3M company undergraduate, he work there until 1990. He has 3 children and 5 grandchildren . He is famous because of his invention , it might be the most useful office supply since the paper clip.