No. 10 - Post-Its Spencer Silver spent years trying to get his colleagues at 3M excited about his low-tack, pressure-sensitive adhesive. The world yawned.
But one day another 3M scientist was in church, not a bad place for a eureka moment, and came up with a use for Dr. Silver's glue.
Arthur Fry was annoyed that the bookmarks in his hymnal wouldn't stay put. He thought adding Dr. Silver's adhesive to some paper might do the trick. Not only was he right, but people have been coming up with uses for the Post-Its ever since.
Have you ever riffed on someone else's idea and made it better? That makes you a Brinker. Tell us about it in the forums.
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