March 27, 2011
ONE OF THE FEW GREAT MEDICAL ADVANCES:
Harry Coover, creator of Super Glue, dies at 94 (AP, 3/27/11)
Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of Super Glue, has died at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. He was 94.Coover was working for Tennessee Eastman Company when an accident resulted in Super Glue, 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, marking the invention of the popular adhesive.
Posted by oj at March 27, 2011 5:15 PM
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