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Warbirdnerd
 Post subject: Super Glue...
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Did you know it was discovered in WWII while reseaching a way to make clear plastic gun sights? I sure did not...
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. — Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of Super Glue, has died. He was 94. Cooper was working for Tennessee Eastman Co., 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. Cyanoacrylate, the chemical name for the glue, was first uncovered in 1942 in a search for materials to make clear plastic gun sights for World War II. But the compound stuck to everything, which is why it was rejected by researchers. Coover died Saturday at his home in Kingsport, Tenn., his grandson said.

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and 3M kicked the basics for POST-ITS around for years before some genius had the idea............

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Didn't know that; I'd heard it was invented to replace sutures.

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sad situation of course, but jay leno had a funny joke last night........ for his viewing they couldn't get the casket open. glad the genius lived a full life. r.i.p.

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