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Mar 27, 2011 · The Associated Press. KINGSPORT, Tenn. — Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of Super Glue, died Saturday at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. He was 94. Mr. Coover was working for ...
Mar 26, 2017 · “Dr. Coover’s secret is the the only thing between my 150 pounds and that wire, will be one drop of glue,” Moore said. Dr. Harry Coover holds up business cards, a piece of wood, some plastic ...
Aug 23, 2011 · Super Glue, also known as cyanoacrylate, was originally discovered in 1942 by Dr. Harry Coover, who by the way died last month on March 26th, 2011. Coover was attempting to make clear plastic gun sights to be put on guns used by Allied soldiers in WWII. One particular formulation he came up with didn’t work well for gun sights, but worked ...
HARRY W. COOVER, JR., one of the most prolific 20th- century innovators in the chemical industry and former vice president for research at Eastman Kodak, Chemicals Division, died on March 26, 2011, at the age of 94 of heart failure. Harry was born in Newark, Delaware, on March 6, 1917. At age 16 the car he was driving was struck by a train on a ...
Mar 29, 2011 · Tennessee. (CNN) -- Harry Wesley Coover, best-known as the inventor of Super Glue, has died at his home in Kingsport, Tennessee, a funeral home there said Sunday. He was 94. The cause of death was ...
Mar 28, 2011 · Harry Wesley Coover, known as the inventor of Super Glue, has died. He was 94. Mr Coover was working for Tennessee Eastman Company, a division of Eastman Kodak, when an accident helped lead to the ...
Jan 9, 2024 · Harry Coover and the Accidental Invention. The man behind the accidental invention of super glue was Dr. Harry Coover. He was a chemist at Eastman Kodak who first came across cyanoacrylates—the chemical family that super glue belongs to—while trying to develop a new precision gun sight.
