The sticky ‘failure’ that conquered the world: the history of the Post-it

The year was 1968. Richard Nixon became president of the United States, the Beatles released the ‘White Album’ and in the 3M laboratories a chemist named Spencer Silver (1941-2021) was about to “screw up” the way more…

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