1966, Spencer Silver, who received a doctorate in organic chemistry from the University of Colorado, began to look for a job. Soon, he found a job with excellent theoretical foundation in Minnesota Mining Manufacturing Company. Silver was very satisfied with the salary of the senior chemist in the Central Research Office and devoted himself to the research work.
From 65438 to 0968, Sifo began to develop new super adhesive according to the company's requirements, with the basic goal of strong adhesion and no heavy offset printing. This seemingly simple and clear goal has made Sifo suffer a lot. Usually, the glue with strong adhesion will definitely have offset printing, and even tearing may damage the material.
Sifo took two years to set the research goal as acrylic balls, and then three years to develop products. Finally, his "super glue" made the company spartan completely. That thing really won't leave much offset printing, but the experiment proves that it can't stick anything except paper effectively at all. ......
The top management of the company is speechless, and the four buddhas themselves are very depressed. After doing such a thing for five years, my heart broke down. 1974, the company held a seminar, hoping that researchers could use their imagination to find ways to commercialize this "weak glue" and at least recover some losses.
At the meeting, a researcher named Arthur Frye suddenly remembered one thing. When he sings in the church choir, he often needs to bring a songbook. In order to quickly turn to the song he wants to sing, Frye often puts a piece of paper in the song book as a mark, but it is easy to fall out when he opens the mark paper. So can this "weak glue" that can only stick to paper solve this problem? Frye decided to give it a try.
There should be no need to continue telling this story. Since then, something called a sign of convenience has appeared in the world, and Minnesota Mining Manufacturing Company has made a lot of money. Later, in order to adapt to diversified development, this company was renamed as 3M Company in 2002. It is said that a large number of masks have been sold this year, which is simply robbing money. ......
Tragic American colonel
1865 is undoubtedly a tragedy for john pemberton, a cavalry colonel of Georgia National Guard. At the end of the civil war, he was stabbed in the chest. What's more, the idiot military doctor injected him with too much morphine to relieve the pain. The unfortunate child became an addict before the wound healed.
The next year, poor pemberton had to find a morphine-free painkiller. Fortunately, before joining the army, this guy was good at medicine and chemistry, and he could develop what he needed by himself. The name of his first recipe was too long, so it was not written on the spitter. In short, the main component of that thing is shrub leaves.
This kind of leaf is very common in Las Vegas. No morphine, it can relieve pain. The only drawback is that it is poisonous. Taking it for a long time is equivalent to chronic suicide. After wandering for a long time in philosophical thinking about life or pain, Bloomberg chose to continue looking for alternatives.
Soon, Pembert found himself a fool. The wisdom of the ancients is there, and he must find a new way out. It doesn't hurt to hit a train for nothing. Why turn a blind eye to it? Crazy Lao Peng improved the formula of coca wine, and mixed the extracts of cola nuts and Hedyotis diffusa in the wine to drink, with good results.
However, the cruelty of fate always caught Lao Peng off guard. A few months before drinking therapy was used, the derailed American government issued a prohibition order, and he had to continue to look for other substitutes! On the verge of collapse, Pembert had to try to dilute the syrup of various extracts with the help of a drugstore, but the progress was almost zero.
After many experiments, Lao Peng accidentally mixed syrup with soda water. He failed miserably in that experiment. This mixture has no analgesic effect at all, but it tastes unexpectedly cool. So Pembert decided to sell this failed thing as a drink and make money to support his future research.
You guessed right, the thing that failed was the fat house pistachio water. If it was not mild fatty liver, the spitter could fill three bottles a day. It's a pity that this thing is not what Pembert wanted, and he didn't make any money from it. Soon after Coca-Cola went on the market, he fell ill.
In order to cure the disease, Lao Peng tried his best to sell the formula to his business partners. Because of the long-term experiment, morphine addiction and almost bankruptcy, he was far-sighted and tried to leave some shares for his son. During the negotiation of formula price, Pembert died tragically at the age of 57, and he could not get rid of morphine until his death.
His son Charles sold the formula for $65,438+0,750 in 65,438+0,888. Even now, the purchasing power is less than 50 thousand dollars. Charles is so eager to sell the formula for a reason. He is also an addict. Unlike his father, he smokes opium. Six years after selling the formula, Charles died tragically, and the great invention failed to bring fate. Bullshit's over.