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Thermo-Fax (very often Thermo fax [1]) is 3M's trademarked name for a photocopying technology which was introduced in 1950. [2] [3] It was a form of thermographic printing and an example of a dry silver process. [4] It was a significant advance as no chemicals were required, other than those contained in the copy paper itself.
Richard Gurley Drew (June 22, 1899 – December 14, 1980) was an American inventor who worked for Johnson and Johnson, Permacel Co., and 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he invented masking tape and cellophane tape.
3M test marketed the product as a "Press 'n Peel" in stores in four cities in 1977, but results were disappointing. [18] [19] A year later, 3M launched a massive marketing campaign known as the Boise Blitz. [1] This campaign involved renaming the product to "Post-it Note" and giving out free samples to offices in Boise, Idaho.
In 2008, 3M created the Renewable Energy Division within 3M's Industrial and Transportation Business to focus on Energy Generation and Energy Management. [ 87 ] [ 88 ] In late 2010, the state of Minnesota sued 3M for $5 billion in punitive damages, claiming they released PFCs —classified a toxic chemical by the EPA—into local waterways. [ 89 ]
Fry was born in Owatonna, Minnesota [2] and subsequently lived in Iowa and Kansas City, Missouri.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.
Ricoh Synchrofax is a Japanese dictating machine from 1959, reissued in 1974 as the 3M Sound Page (model 627AA and 627AG) as official teaching material in the US-state of Oklahoma. [1] It is also known as sound paper. Inventor Sakae Fujimoto filed the patents US3074724A and US3046357A in 1959. [2] [3]
Offset printing is a common printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on the repulsion of oil and water, the offset technique employs a flat (planographic) image carrier.
Alan Amron (born November 20, 1948) is an American inventor who holds 40 [1] [2] United States patents. Amron invented the Photo Wallet and Battery operated water guns.. He has claimed to be the inventor of the Post-it note Sticky notes, for which he sued 3M in 1997 and agreed to a confidential settlement.