Super Glue is invented by Harry Coover
In what have been a very messy moment of discovery in 1942, Dr. Harry Coover of Eastman-Kodak Laboratories found that a substance he created
cyanoacrylate
was a miserable failure.
Six years later, while overseeing
an experimental new design for airplane canopies,
Coover found himself stuck in the same gooey mess
with a familiar foe
cyanacrylate
was proving useless as ever.
But this time, Coover observed that
the stuff formed an incredibly strong bond
without needing heat.
Coover slapped a patent on his discovery, and in 1958, a full 16 years after he first got stuck, cyanoacrylate was being sold on shelves.
In what have been a very messy moment of discovery in 1942, Dr. Harry Coover of Eastman-Kodak Laboratories found that a substance he created
cyanoacrylate
was a miserable failure.
Six years later, while overseeing
an experimental new design for airplane canopies,
Coover found himself stuck in the same gooey mess
with a familiar foe
cyanacrylate
was proving useless as ever.
the stuff formed an incredibly strong bond
without needing heat.
Coover slapped a patent on his discovery, and in 1958, a full 16 years after he first got stuck, cyanoacrylate was being sold on shelves.
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