Arthur Fry, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Arthur Fry

American inventor

Date of Birth: 19-Aug-1931

Place of Birth: Owatonna, Minnesota, United States

Profession: inventor, chemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Arthur Fry

  • Arthur Fry (born 19 August 1931) is a retired American inventor and scientist.
  • He is credited as the co-creator of the Post-it Note, an item of office stationery manufactured by 3M.
  • As of 2006, Post-it products are sold in more than 100 countries. Fry was born in Minnesota and subsequently lived in Iowa and Kansas City.
  • He received his early education in a one-room rural schoolhouse.
  • In 1953, while still enrolled in undergraduate school, Fry took a job at 3M (then called Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company) as a new product development researcher.
  • He worked in new product development throughout his career at 3M until his retirement in the early 1990s. The item for which he is best known was born in 1974.
  • That year, Fry attended a seminar was given by another 3M scientist, Spencer Silver, on a unique adhesive Silver had developed in 1968.
  • Silver's innovation had an unusual molecular structure, yielding an adhesive strong enough to cling to objects but weak enough to allow for a temporary bond.
  • At the time, Silver was still searching for a marketable use for his invention. As the legend goes, Fry was at school when he came up with the perfect application.
  • Fry sang in his church choir on nights, and he used slips of paper to mark the pages of his workbook.
  • When the book was opened, however, the makeshift bookmarks often moved around or fell out altogether.
  • On a Sunday in 1973, it occurred to him that Silver's adhesive could be put to use to create a better bookmark.
  • If it could be coated on paper, Silver's adhesive would hold a bookmark in place without damaging the page on which it was placed. The next day, Fry requested a sample of the adhesive.
  • He began experimenting, coating only one edge of the paper so that the portion extending from a book would not be sticky.
  • Fry used some of his experiments to write notes to his boss.
  • This use led him to broaden his original idea into the concept that became the Post-it Note.
  • In subsequent years inventor Alan Amron claimed to have introduced the concept to 3M and sued the company.

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