Here is a list of some sticky inventions:
- 1906 Blibber-Blubber gum was invented by Frank Fleer but never went on sale. In 1928 Walter Diemer, an accountant at Fleer’s company, invented the pink Double Bubble gum that we all know today.
- The Post-it note was launched in 1980. The glue was discovered by a company chemist Spencer Silver at 3M but it was Art Fry who suggested using it for Post-it notes.
- In 1923 Richard Drew first invented masking tape as a solution to creating distinct lines in two toned auto body painting. Then in 1925 he produced what is known today as Scotch Tape.
- Researchers Harry Coover and Fred Joyner invented cyanoacrylate 1942 when looking for a light plastic substance for gun sights. In 1951 they found that a trace of water triggered a chemical reaction that turns the liquid glue into plastic, thus the invention of Superglue.
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