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R. Stanton Avery (January 13, 1907 – December 12, 1997) was an American inventor, [1] most known for creating self-adhesive labels (modern stickers).Using a $100 loan from his then-fiancé Dorothy Durfee, and combining used machine parts with a saber saw, he created and patented the world's first self-adhesive (also called pressure sensitive) die-cut labeling machine.
Robert Stanton Avery (1808–1894) was an American mathematician. In 1846, he graduated from Harvard Divinity School , and soon after turned his attention to mathematics and physical sciences . He taught math in schools in the South, until he was drafted into the United States Coast Survey , during which he became the Chief of the Tidal Division .
The machines Avery pioneered used a die-cutting process, allowing the paper to be cut into a repeated, specific shape, usually a rectangle or a square. In the 1960s, further innovations, increasing demand, and new kinds of adhesives were produced, and self-adhesive labels began to be manufactured on a large scale to a worldwide market. [ 1 ]
Paul O. Wennberg is the R. Stanton Avery Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Science and Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). [1] Until 2023, he was the director of the Ronald and Maxine Linde Center for Global Environmental Science. [ 2 ]
In 1946, the company was incorporated as Avery Adhesive Label Corp., and the name was subsequently changed to Avery Adhesive Products, Inc. in 1958, and to Avery Products Corporation in 1964. [4] The name was changed again to Avery International Corporation in 1976, and it became Avery Dennison after the company merged with the Dennison ...
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