Posted on 05/14/2021 6:59:13 AM PDT by xp38
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - The co-inventor of the Post-it Note died Saturday at his home in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Spencer Silver, 80, invented the adhesive that would later be an integral part of the popular 3M product, the company announced in a release Wednesday. Silver made the breakthrough in 1968, discovering a formulation of adhesives that was strong enough to hold paper together but that could be removed and re-stuck again without damaging the paper.
After he made the discovery, he and his 3M colleagues began looking for applications, calling it a "solution waiting for a problem to solve."
His coworker Art Fry came up with the Post-it note in 1974. It was conceived as a way to prevent paper bookmarks from falling out of his hymnal when he sang in church.
Silver retired in 1996 after earning 37 patents in his 3M career. He won several awards, including the 1998 American Chemical Society Award for Creative Invention. He was also a member of both the National Inventors Hall of Fame and the Minnesota Science & Technology Hall of Fame. Silver is said to have loved cooking and travel and was an accomplished artist, too. He was a participant in the Northeast Minneapolis Artists Association and his work has been exhibited at Bloomington Center for the Arts.
Silver was born in 1941 in San Antonio, Texas. He earned degrees from Arizona State University and the University of Colorado-Boulder.
From 3M: Silver’s family has requested that in lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to Camp Invention, a STEM summer program for grades K-6.
“It was conceived as a way to prevent paper bookmarks from falling out of his hymnal when he sang in church.”
So now Post-It notes get cancelled because of their connection to imperialist religion.
He was the glue...
All the messages of condolence should be written upon post-it notes, which are then plastered all over his coffin before they lower it into the ground.
Slipped the gluey surface of earth....
While working in mental health I met a 60 year old man with dementia. He papered the inside of his automobile and every room of his house with Post-it notes to himself. The Post-it notes helped him compensate for his illness and live independently much longer than he would have otherwise.
I had a battalion XO at Ft. Riley whose leadership style would best be described as, “management by sticky note.” His was not a, “purpose driven life,” but rather a, “post-it driven life.”
Rose Kennedy used to pin pieces of paper to herself to remind her about stuff. I don’t know if she ever switched to post-it notes.
I love when folks give me their phone number on a post-it note. “I don’t think you get the point of a post-it note. It doesn’t easily slide in a wallet. What am I supposed to do, stick this on my forehead?”
Anyway, RIP
RIP
Thank you, and RIP, Mr. Silver.
RIP. That said, I hate Post-it notes.
Exactly
J/k..... RIP to this wonderful person who has helped me to organize my life, on PostIt notes :-)
RIP.
No wonder Biden is always looking inside his jacket.
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