For Spencer Silver, a retired chemist at 3M, his big break was the Post ... bookmarks at that time and discovered that they weren't just bookmarks, but they were self-attaching notes," he says.

But that hasn’t stopped the humble Post ... bookmark that would stick to the paper without falling off and but not damage the sheets,” he said. When the team started writing messages on the ...

Fry's bookmarks had ... they wanted to keep the notes once the trial was over, a sure sign 3M had found a very willing market for these little orphans. By 1990, Post-it Notes were one of the ...

At the time, Fry had been looking for a way to bookmark his church choir papers without damaging the page, 3M stated. The two put their heads together — and Post-it Notes were officially born.

Thankfully for Fry, his... An Idea That Stuck: How A Hymnal Bookmark Helped Inspire The Post-It Note As part of a series called "My Big Break," All Things Considered is collecting stories of ...