There was a man who was perhaps responsible for more things being tightly glued to otherThings (and quite a lot of people glued to things too) than anyone else. That man was Harry Coover , who dies last Saturday aged 94.
In 1942, while searching for materials to make clear plastic gun sights, Coover and his team at Eastman Kodak first worked with cyanoaryltates but rejected them. Nine years later, Coover was overseeing Kodak chemists investigating heat-resistant polymers for jet canopies when cyanoacrylates were once again tested. That time around, however, Coover recognized that he had discovered a unique adhesive. In 1958, the adhesive Super Glue was introduced for sale.
Coover held 460 patents. In 2004, he was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame. In 2010, Coover received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Dr Coover, we salute you
8 comments:
Pity he didn't ... er ... sitck around a bit longer! :-)
I was waiting to see if someone would say that Francis!
The father of an old girlfriend of mine independently invented Epoxy, and he was the first. Much good it did him: his employer disliked him and refused to either patent it or release him to do so. Eventually of course... well, you know what happened. Forty years ago when I met him, he still had his original samples.
That is a shane Steve. It is unfortunate that he is by no means the first to lose out on the limelight
Things became unglued for him?
Colin that's worse than Steve's comment!
I guess he refused to adhere to his initial theories on cyanoarlytates!
Aargh another terrible pun.. Nice one!
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