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Scott Crump invents Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)

StratasysF-series FDM

Scott Crump conceived FDM by using a heated glue gun to build a toy frog for his daughter layer by layer. The idea led to Stratasys' founding and the creation of the world's most widely used 3D printing process.

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