The 3M dedication to innovation is always a team effort.
Innovators learn that it's better to ask for forgiveness than for permission.
Note is one of the best known of all 3M products. Notes were invented. Notes so versatile. 3M research scientist Dr. Spence Silver first developed the technology in 1968, while looking for ways to improve the acrylate adhesives that 3M uses in many of its tapes. In a classic case of innovative serendipity, Silver found something quite remarkably different from what he was originally looking for.