Sunday, March 27, 2011

Harry Coover, R. I. P.

Harry Coover, creator of Super Glue, dies at 94: "Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of Super Glue, has died. He was 94.

Coover was working for Tennessee Eastman Company, a division of Eastman Kodak, when an accident helped lead to the popular adhesive being discovered, according to his grandson, Adam Paul of South Carolina. An assistant was distressed that some brand new refractometer prisms were ruined when they were glued together by the substance.

In 1951, Coover and another researcher recognized the potential for the strong adhesive, and it was first sold in 1958, according to the Super Glue Corp.'s website."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I was in college in 1958, and some ne'er-do-wells, namely myself and other provocateurs, hatched a scheme to glue down the University of Wisconsin campus with the new super glue: glue doors shut, restroom doors open, books onto desks, on and on. I'd still be in prison if we had pulled it off.