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Sticky Creativity
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Sticky Creativity

by Bo T. Christensen, Kim Halskov, Clemens N. Klokmose
November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
284 pages
9h 10m
English
Academic Press
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Preface: An interview with Spencer Silver on the history of the Post-it® note

In the eyes of the user, a Post-it® note is deceptively simple: a small piece of paper with a thin strip of adhesive. Thus, it may come as a surprise to some that the development of the adhesive, its application context, and its means of production, took more than a decade. At the time 3M launched the Post-it® note nationally in 1980, it had already been a long time since Spencer Silver (working for 3M) in 1968 had invented the adhesive that makes sticky notes sticky, and since Arthur Fry in 1974 (also at 3M), had applied that adhesive to what he considered a sticky bookmark, and conceptualized the new means of production necessary.
For this preface, we asked Spencer ...
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ISBN: 9780128165584