New Podcast Honors Inventor Art Fry, Creator of the Post-it Note

So, why didn't I think of that? When Art Fry did invent an adhesive-backed note card in 1974 and created the ubiquitous Post-it Note, it took more than just a little ingenuity. It took chemical know-how and some major backing from his employer 3M. "We realized that what we had was not just a bookmark," says Fry, "but a new way to communicate or organize information." Hear Art Fry explain how and why in a podcast created by the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. What's your favorite thing you do with Post-it Notes? Tell us in the comment area below.

(Photograph Courtesy of Art Fry.)

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Senior editor Beth Py-Lieberman is the author of the The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections.