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Shelby Tenney

Harry W. Coover, Jr.: inventor of super glue and only person to win all three IRI award... - 1 views

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  • Coover was a long-time IRI member who served on the Board of Directors 1977-1983, serving as president 1981-1982. He was also the only person ever to win all three IRI awards. He was awarded the IRI Medal in 1984, just after his retirement from Eastman Kodak Company. Subsequently, he won the 1987 Maurice Holland Award for the best paper to appear in Research-Technology Management in 1986, for a paper entitled "Programmed Innovation--Strategy for Success," published in the November-December 1986 issue of RTM. And he was awarded the 1999 IRI Achievement Award in recognition of his work with cyanoacrylate adhesives, as well as for "his prolific scientific achievements recorded in more than 60 papers and 460 patents." Coover was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation shortly before his death, also for his work with cyanoacrylates.
De Anna Jo Powell

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inventor notes Harry Coover

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      Shelby Tenney on 10 Jan 14
       
      Tells about how he discovered and rediscovered it.
  • The incredibly stable adhesive known as Super Glue ™ was invented by accident in 1942 by Dr. Harry Coover. Today the substance is somewhat of a household necessity, with uses ranging from simple woodworking and appliance repair to industrial binding and medical applications.
  • Born in Newark, Delaware on March 6, 1919, Coover received his B.S. from Hobart College and continued his studies at Cornell University, where he earned an M.S. in chemistry 1942 and Ph.D. in 1944. Shortly thereafter he began working for Eastman-Kodak’s chemical division in Rochester, New York.
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  • conducting research with chemicals known as cyanoacrylates in an effor
  • extremely sticky
  • t to find a way to make a clear plastic that could be used for precision gunsights for soldiers.
  • discovered
  • World War II
  • Moisture causes the chemicals to polymerize
  • bonding
  • would occur in
  • virtually every testing instance
  • Kodak’s chemical plant
  • transferred
  • 1951,
  • re-discovered
  • new potential
  • Eastman 910
  • began marketing it in 1958.
  • Vietnam War
  • apparent that cyanoacrylates could be used to treat war wounds
  • stopped bleeding
  • saved many lives during the war and lead to the eventual approval by the FDA
  • rejoining veins
  • arteries during surgery,
  • punctures or lesions
  • sealing bleeding ulcers
  • stopping uncontrollable bleeding of some soft organs,
  • dental surgery.
  • awarded more than 460 patents
  • wrote at least 60 papers
  • Industrial Research Institute Medal Achievement Award,
  • ACS Earl B. Barnes Award,
  • Maurice Holland Award
  • AIC Chemical Pioneers Award
  • National Inventor's Hall of Fame.
  • De Anna Jo Powell on 15 Jan 14
     
    A very good website
De Anna Jo Powell

Harry Wesley Coover Journal Of Life Memorial Website, Biography, Photos, Facts, Life Story - 0 views

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inventor biography photos facts journal Harry Coover

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  • Harry Wesley Coover, Jr
  • inventor of Eastman 910, commonly known as Super Glue.
  • born in Newark, Delaware
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  • received
  • Bachelor of Science from Hobart College before earning his Master of Science and Ph. D. from Cornell University.
  • Eastman Kodak from 1944–1973
  • Vice President of the company from 1973-1984.
  • 1942, while searching for materials to make clear plastic gun sights, Coover and his team at Eastman Kodak first worked with cyanoacrylates, rejecting them as too sticky.
  • Nine years later,
  • 1958, the adhesive, marketed by Kodak as Super Glue, was introduced for sale.
  • overseeing Kodak chemists investigating heat-resistant polymers for jet canopies when cyanoacrylates were once again tested and proved too sticky.
  • cyanoacrylate is an acrylic resin which rapidly polymerises in the presence of water (specifically hydroxide ions), forming long, strong chains, joining the bonded surfaces together.
  • Cyanoacrylate is used as a forensic tool to capture latent fingerprints on non-porous surfaces like glass, plastic, etc.
  • Chemical structure of methyl cyanoacrylate, the basis of Superglue
  • Coover was also the first to recognize and patent cyanoacrylates as a tissue adhesive.
  • Vietnam War to temporarily patch the internal organs of injured soldiers until conventional surgery could be performed,
  • 460 patents, and Super Glue was just one of his many discoveries
  • Implemented at Kodak, programmed innovation resulted in the introduction of 320 new products and sales growth from $1.8 billion to $2.5 billion.
  • Coover received the Southern Chemist Man of the Year Award for his outstanding accomplishments in individual innovation and creativity.
  • 2004,
  • inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame.
  • He also held the
  • He also held the
  • National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
  • Earle B. Barnes Award for Leadership
  • Chemical Research Management,
  • Maurice Holland Award
  • medalist for the Industrial Research Institute
  • natural causes
  • Kingsport, Tennessee
    • De Anna Jo Powell
      De Anna Jo Powell on 14 Jan 14
       
      Good videos
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      De Anna Jo Powell on 14 Jan 14
       
      A few great pictures
    • De Anna Jo Powell
      De Anna Jo Powell on 14 Jan 14
       
      A lot of good information over Harry Coover, the invention, and the science behind it.
  • Delaware
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    This is by far one of the best sights I have found
Nathanael Nix

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history cell phone inventor MartinCooper martin cooper cellphone-facts awards

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  • Nathanael Nix on 15 Jan 14
     
    This is a very good website about Martin Cooper and the phone invention and some of the awards he has received.
Heather Purpera

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      Jul 28, 2000 8:37 PM-James Russell thought of it in 1965 while working for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, operated by Battelle Memorial Institute for the U. S. Department of Energy. His idea, known as Optical Digital Recording (ODR), was to store information digitally on photosensitive film using a laser to record and to play back. In 1974, for his work on ODR, Russell was honored with an R&D 100 Award. By 1980 he had made the first disk player.
  • For a long time Battelle was unable to interest anyone else in ODR. Eventually Sony and Philips licensed it, established a proprietary ODR format for audio called “Compact Disc” (CD), and delivered a commercial product in 1982, followed in 1985 with a related ODR format for data called CD-ROM. Sony and Philips call these their “inventions”, misleading many into seeing Sony and Philips as visionary. They are often given sole credit for this revolutionary technology. In actuality, their contribution was to bring Russell’s system to market, and only after taking two decades to recognize its value.
  • As you might expect, Sony and Philips have made millions, and Russell himself got nothing.
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      Heather Purpera on 13 Jan 14
       
      Russell got nothing as expected yet Sony and Philips have gotten all the fame and made "millions"!!!
  • Russell invented it Fred Moody: CD-ROM Inventor Strikes Again
  • Sony and Philips co-invented it
  • ment.
  • It is now 14 years since Sony and Philips launched the Compact Disc digital audio format and gave the world its first taste of digital entertain
  • Jul 28, 2000 8:37 PM–James Russell thought of it in 1965 while working for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, operated by Battelle Memorial Institute for the U. S. Department of Energy. His idea, known as Optical Digital Recording (ODR), was to store information digitally on photosensitive film using a laser to record and to play back. In 1974, for his work on ODR, Russell was honored with an R&D 100 Award. By 1980 he had made the first disk player.
Morgan Pearson

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inventor history

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  • Nils Ivar Bohlin
  • born in 1920 in Harnosand, Sweden
  • 1939 he completed his B.S. in mechanical engineering at Harnosand Laroveik.
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  • he was in charge of the development of ejection seats
  • ired as a safety engineer for AB Volvo in Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • . Safety belts were in use at the time, but the most prevalent design used a single strap with a buckle over the stomach. This design risked injury to body organs in high-speed crashes.
    • Morgan Pearson
      Morgan Pearson on 09 Jan 14
       
      Really good information and details on what happened while Nils Bohlin was inventing the three-point seat belt.
  • Bohlin aimed to find an alternative design that would not only protect both the upper and lower body, but would also be comfortable and simple to use.
  • The design held both the upper and lower body in place, and was simple enough that the driver could buckle up with one hand.
  • In 1958, Bohlin was h
  • by 1963 all Volvos came equipped with front seat belts, and the company decided to make the design free for use by all car makers.
  • In 1959, Volvo became the first auto maker to introduce Bohlin’s three-point safety belt design.
  • The report claimed that the belt had already saved thousands of lives, reducing the risk of injury or death in car accidents by as much as 75 percent.
  • It persuaded a number of other national governments to do the same
  • Since its introduction, the three-point shoulder/lap safety belt has changed very little in its overall design.
  • As of today, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates the belts reduce the risk of deaths in car crashes by at least 45 percent.
  • Bohlin retired from Volvo in 1985.
  • In 1974 Bohlin was awarded The Ralph H. Isbrandt Automotive Safety Engineering Award.
  • honored in 1979 and in 1985 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in Washington, D.C. In 1995, he received a medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. In 2002, he was inducted into the (U.S.) National Inventors Hall of Fame. On the day he was to be honored for this achievement, Bohlin died at age 82.
  • Morgan Pearson on 09 Jan 14
     
    Information on Nils Bohlin while inventing the seat belt.
Nathanael Nix

Martin Cooper Mobile Phone Inventions Whartonmotorola Attwireless Technology Innovatato... - 0 views

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  • The Dr. Martin Cooper story is truly an inspirational one, especially for all future scientist, entrepreneurs, and innovators.
  • He was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 26, 1928, and earned his Bachelors and Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1950 and 1957 respectively. Martin Cooper, prior to his employment with Motorola in 1954, served in the Navy for 4 years, working on destroyers, and on submarines. He had also worked for a short time with another telecommunications company, before his historic association with Motorola.
  • today, there are more subscribers to mobile phones, than landlines all over the world, and the number is growing. The communication breakthrough of Martin Cooper did not go unnoticed, as he was awarded the Wharton Infosys Business Award in 1995, for his technological innovations in the communications field; a truly prestigious recognition from a reputable institution.
Chad Amico

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arthur fry information

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  • Most Famous Invention Sticky Post-it note sheets
  • Arthur L. Fry
  • United States
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  • Year Inducted into the
  • Inventors Hall of Fame 2010
  • Art Fry was a researcher at 3M he learned the adhesive microspheres that was developed by Spencer Silver. This microspheres were pressure-sensitive, but had a low degree of adhesion. He coated paper with the adhesive and made repositionable notes and thus he created Sticky Post-it note sheets
  • Post-it notes were released to the national market in 1980. In 1981, 3M named Post-it notes its Outstanding New Product. In 1980 and 1981, the Post-it note team received 3M's Golden Step Award, given to teams who create major new products that are significantly profitable. In 2003 the Post-it Note was a central role in a new play titled Inside a Bigger Box that premiered in New York at the 78th Street Theatre Lab
  • Arthur Fry is a retired United States inventor and scientist. He is credited as the co-creator of the Post-it note, an item of office stationery manufactured by 3M. As of 2006, Post-it note products are sold in more than 100 countries. Fry was born in Minnesota, and subsequently lived in Iowa and Kansas City. He received his early education in a one-room rural schoolhouse. During his childhood, he reputedly made his first foray into engineering by building toboggans from scrap lumber. In 1980 and 1981, the Post-it note team received 3M's Golden Step Award
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    ARTHUR FRY BIOGRAPHY!?
Nathanael Nix

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cell phone history inventor martin cooper MartinCooper cellphone-facts

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  • Martin Cooper is a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, an inventor, entrepreneur and executive. He has had been a contributor to the technology of personal wireless communications for over 50 years He conceived the first portable cellular phone in 1973 and is cited in the Guinness Book of World Records for making the first cellular telephone call.
  • Cooper was a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy, a division manager and head of R&D for Motorola during a  29 year tenure. As an entrepreneur he has started a number of businesses including co-founding GreatCall, Inc., maker of the Jitterbug phone and service and ArrayComm, the world leader in smart antenna technology.
  • Prize: DraperYear: 2013Citation: Pioneering contributions to the world’s first cellular telephone networks, systems, and standards.
  • Nathanael Nix on 15 Jan 14
     
    This is a pretty good biography about Martin Cooper, It has some pretty good information in it.
anthony tarango

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      a very good website about martin cooper
  • Nathanael Nix on 24 Jan 14
     
    This is a pretty good website that shows some of the honors and awards that Martin Cooper has received.
Max N.

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  • Bradley grew up in a working-class household in Lowell, Massachusetts.
  • completing high school he found work as a draftsman before enrolling at the Lawrence Scientific School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1856, he secured employment at the Watson Company in Springfield, Massachusetts.
  • company was shuttered during the recession of 1858, he entered business for himself as a mechanical draftsman and patent agent
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  • pursued lithography and in 1860, he set up the first color lithography shop in Springfield, Massachusetts
  • moved forward with an idea he had for a board game which he called The Checkered Game of Life, an early version of what later became The Game of Life.
  • 2004, he was posthumously inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame along with George Ditomassi of Milton Bradley Company. Through the 20th century the company he founded in 1860, Milton Bradley Company dominated the production of American games, with titles like Candyland, Operation, and Battleship. The company is now a subsidiary of Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based Hasbro.
  • In search of a lucrative alternative project in which to employ his drafting skills, Bradley found inspiration from an imported board game given to him by a friend. Concluding that he could produce and market a similar game to American consumers, Milton Bradley released The Checkered Game of Life in the winter of 1860.
  • Bradley personally sold his first run of several hundred copies in one two-day period in New York; by 1861, consumers had bought over 45,000 copies.
  • While the structure of play used in The Checkered Game of Life differed little from previous board games, Bradley's game embraced a radically different concept of success. Earlier children's games, such as the popular Mansion of Happiness developed in Puritan Massachusetts, were concerned entirely with providing an attractive venue from which to promote moral virtue. But Bradley preferred to define success in secular business terms consistent with America's emerging focus on "the causal relationship between character and wealth." This approach, which depicted life as a quest for accomplishment in which personal virtues provided a means to an end, rather than a point of focus, complemented America's burgeoning fascination with obtaining wealth in the years following the Civil War.
  • Bradley established a set of rules to play croquet in 1866. Bradley was one of the marketers of the zoetrope, a spinning slotted drum with pre-printed images to create the illusion of motion pictures. Though this was not definitely known as of November 2010, Bradley might have been awarded the patent for the one-arm paper cutter.
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      Milton also created the paper cutter and the rules to croquet
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    this is really good information. wish i had looked on Wikipedia sooner
Max N.

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      Max N. on 10 Jan 14
       
      The very first board game was the, The Checkered Game of Life
  • Board game pioneer who invented The Game of Life
  • American draftsman and lithographer Milton Bradley founded the Milton Bradley Company, famous makers of family board games such as The Game of Life, CandyLand and Twister. Raised in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, Bradley attended Harvard's Lawrence Scientific School from 1854 to 1856. He then worked as a draftsman for the Wason Car Works, manufacturers of railcars, until 1860, when he founded a lithography business in Springfield, Massachusetts. His initial success with a lithograph of clean-shaven presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln was dashed after Lincoln grew his famous beard, but Bradley moved on with a board game called The Checkered Game of Life. Now called The Game of Life, it is part of a Milton Bradley catalog that includes Yahtzee, Connect 4, Chutes and Ladders, Mouse Trap, Operation and Big Ben jigsaw puzzles. Mr. Bradley was also an advocate of kindergarten programs and early art education, and for many years his company manufactured materials and published books for childhood education. Bradley himself published several books in the field, including Color in Kindergarten (1893) and Water Colors in the Schoolroom (1900).
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  • tra credit: The Milton Bradley Company was acquired by Hasbro, Inc. in 1984... In 1881 Bradley was awarded a patent for a one-armed paper cutting machine... During the last years of his life the press sometimes referred to Bradley as "the Edison of Kindergarten"... Milton Bradley is also the name of a right fielder who plays professional baseball (his full name is MIlton Obelle Bradley, Jr.).
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      Max N. on 10 Jan 14
       
      American draftsman and lithographer Milton Bradley founded the Milton Bradley Company, famous makers of family board games such as The Game of Life, CandyLand and Twister. Read more: Milton Bradley Biography (Inventor/Entrepreneur) | Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/miltonbradley.html#ixzz2q1gIjdbN
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    you stole my pic
De Anna Jo Powell

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inventor super glue Harry Coover

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      Did not become rich because he made superglue.
  • died on Saturday night at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. He was 94.
  • cause was congestive heart failure,
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  • accident
  • experimenting with acrylates for use in clear plastic gun-sights during World War II.
  • In 1951, a researcher named Fred Joyner,
  • testing hundreds of compounds looking for a temperature-resistant coating for jet cockpits
  • 910th compound on the list between two lenses on a refractometer to take a reading on the velocity of light through it,
  • could not separate the lenses.
  • Seven years later, the first incarnation of Super Glue, called Eastman 910, hit the market.
  • Dr. Coover’s secret was that he had invented Super Glue,
  • Dr. Coover was born in Newark, Del., on March 6, 1917.
  • He studied chemistry at Hobart College and then received a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Cornell University.
  • Eastman Kodak Company until he retired and then worked as a consultant. In 2004, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
  • President Obama awarded him the National Medal of Technology and Innovation
  • Dr. Coover held 460 patents by the end of his life. Nonetheless, Dr. Paul said, he didn’t mind being known by his “most outstanding” invention.
  • One of his proudest accomplishments, Dr. Paul added, was that his invention was used to treat injured soldiers during the Vietnam War.
  • Super Glue did not make Dr. Coover rich.
De Anna Jo Powell

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super glue inventor Harry Coover

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  • Harry Coover, 94, who as a young chemist in the 1940s and '50s discovered a powerful adhesive compound known today as Super Glue and Instant Krazy Glue, died March 26 at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. He had congestive heart failure.
  • 1942, as a chemist with Eastman Kodak
  • developing a plastic rifle sight for use in World War II
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  • "The damn problem was everything was sticking to everything else," he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2005. "We had a hard time using it in molds."
  • 1951, Dr. Coover was testing a heat-resistant polymer for use in aircraft windshields when he remembered his encounter with cyanoacrylate.
  • droplet of the liquid
  • bonded the lenses of an expensive optical instrument
  • compound solidifies after coming into contact with trace amounts of moisture
  • extremely strong polymer layer between two surfaces.
  • 1958 on an episode of the game show "I've Got a Secret,"
  • Eastman 910
  • aptly named because its fast-acting adhesive is effective by the count of 10
  • hoist Moore in the air as the host dangled from a set of glued pipes.
  • Eastman 910's remarkable strength and sticky quality led to a wide variety of applications.
  • used Super Glue to reduce scarring
  • 1950s, it was used in the manufacturing of atomic weapons.
  • Dr. Coover was most proud of its application in the Vietnam War
  • Harry Wesley Coover Jr. was born March 6, 1917, in Newark, Del.
  • As a teenager, he was driving over a railroad crossing when his car was hit by a train, his family said. The accident sent Dr. Coover into a coma for several months. When he awoke, he had no memory of the crash or his life before he was 16
  • recovered and graduated in 1941 from Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y. He then attended Cornell University, where he received a master's degree in 1942 and a doctorate in 1944, both in chemistry.
  • Dr. Coover retired from Eastman Kodak as vice president in 1984
  • 2010, President Obama awarded Dr. Coover the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
  • Dr. Coover held more than 460 patents
  • 1983 movie "The Man Who Loved Women," Burt Reynolds and a tube of Instant Krazy Glue become stuck to a white shag carpet and a miniature dog named Simba.
  • De Anna Jo Powell on 17 Jan 14
     
    Some good information on Harry Coover of when he was younger
Katlyn Humphries

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  • Febreze
  • Old Spice
  • Secret
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  • Charmin
  • Children’s Pepto
  • Clearblue Easy
  • Dreft
  • Pampers
  • Pampers Kandoo
  • Max Factor
  • Puffs
  • Duracell
  • Camay
  • Ivory
  • Old Spice
  • Safeguard
  • CoverGirl
  • Pampers UnderJams
  • Braun
  • Gillette Complete Skincare
  • Cascade
  • Ivory
  • Always
  • Tampax
  • Aussie
  • Clairol
  • Head & Shoulders
  • Herbal Essences
  • Infusium 23
  • Pantene
  • Align
  • Pepto-Bismol
  • Prilosec OTC
  • Bounty
  • Mr. Clean
  • Swiffer
  • Crest
  • Crest Glide
  • Crest Whitestrips
  • Scope
  • Oral-B
  • Gillette Fusion
  • Gillette M3Power
  • Gillette SatinCare
  • Gillette Venus
  • Pringles
  • 1907-1920 William Cooper Procter, son of William Alexander, takes over as Head of the company. Crisco is invented and introduced, and the company’s candles are discontinued with the development of the electric light bulb!Over the next three decades, Procter & Gamble develops many more products. Tide detergent, Drene shampoo, Duncan Hines Cake Mix, and Crest toothpaste are just a few of the products that brought the company much wealth, during that time.
  • 1850 Procter & Gamble begin printing the “Moon and Stars” on their packaged products, as their unofficial trademark.
  • 1859 Procter & Gamble reaches the one million-dollar mark!
  • 1862 Numerous contracts were awarded to P&G, during the Civil War, to supply soap and candles to the Union armies.
  • 1890 William Alexander Procter, younger son of Mr. Procter, becomes the first President of the company. That same year, he builds one of the American industry’s first research labs for products.
  • 1837 William Procter (a candle maker from England) and James Gamble (a soap maker from Ireland) immigrate to Cincinnati, Ohio and begin selling their products. A formal partnership is signed on October 31, 1837.
  • 1957-1961 P&G enters the paper product industry with the acquisition of Charmin Paper Mills, and Pampers are brought to the test market. The original Charmin “family” included paper towels, facial tissue and bath tissue, however; P&G discontinued all but bath tissue for their product market.
  • 1973 Procter & Gamble patents a new manufacturing technique to produce softer Charmin tissue.
  • 1978 Charmin becomes available in all 50 states, and the new 6-roll package is introduced.
  • 1994-1997 Charmin’s products just keep coming! The Charmin Mega Roll, the double roll, the triple roll, and the “Big Squeeze” mega size roll are created.
  • 1999 Procter & Gamble introduces its biggest upgrade in 10 years-the new, most absorbent Charmin toilet tissue with the same softness.
  • 2002 P&G develops Naturella feminine pads specifically for needs of low-income women in Latin America.
  • 2006 To aid the global crisis of unsafe drinking water in developing countries, P&G launches the Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program using their PUR water system.
  • Katlyn Humphries on 14 Jan 14
     
    List of their brands that they've joined or created
Nathanael Nix

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cell phone history inventor martin cooper MartinCooper cellphone-facts

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  • Martin Cooper was born in Liverpool in 1958 and studied art at the Laird School of Art in Birkenhead.
  • Between 1980 and 1989 Martin was a member of the highly successful pop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
  • Martin has exhibited extensively, both in the UK and overseas, and his pictures hang in many private collections. In recent years he has exhibited at the Williamson Art Gallery (Birkenhead), the Royal Academy of Arts (London), the David Messum Fine Art Gallery (London), W H Patterson (London), Woodhay Picture Gallery (Newbury), Llewellyn Alexander (London), the Brian Sinfield Gallery (Compton Cassey Galleries), Sarah Samuals Fine Art (Chester), Heritage House (Bermuda) and the Fel Gallery (Singapore).
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  • In 1998 Martin was awarded the sponsors prize in the Discerning Eye exhibition which was held at The Mall Gallery in London.
  • Martin lives in Greasby, Merseyside with his wife, Alexandra Bibby, a classical pianist, and their two sons.
  • Nathanael Nix on 14 Jan 14
     
    This is a very good informational website about one of Martin Cooper's previous jobs.
De Anna Jo Powell

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  • Harry Wesley Coover Jr., the man who invented Super Glue, died on Saturday night at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. He was 94.
  • when he was experimenting with acrylates for use in clear plastic gun-sights during World War II
  • In 1951, a researcher named Fred Joyner, who was working with Dr. Coover at Eastman Kodak’s laboratory in Tennessee, was testing hundreds of compounds looking for a temperature-resistant coating for jet cockpits
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  • Seven years later, the first incarnation of Super Glue, called Eastman 910, hit the market.
  • Dr. Coover was born in Newark, Del., on March 6, 1917.
  • chemistry at Hobart College and then received a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Cornell University. He worked at the Eastman Kodak Company until he retired and then worked as a consultant. In 2004, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
  • Last year, President Obama awarded him the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
  • Super Glue did not make Dr. Coover rich
  • De Anna Jo Powell on 15 Jan 14
     
    good article about Harry Coover
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  • Harry Wesley Coover Jr shortly before be awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by Barack Obama
  • 17 November 2010
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Montgomery County Daily: Harry Coover Jr., Inventor of Super Glue, Dies at Age 94 - 0 views

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  • (NewsCore) - The man who invented Super Glue has died in Tennessee at the age of 94, The New York Times reported Sunday. Harry Wesley Coover Jr., who discovered the super-sticky adhesive by accident during World War II, died of congestive heart failure Saturday night at his home in Kingsport. Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2004, Coover was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation last year by President Barack Obama. Super Glue did not make him rich, however, as it did not become a commercial success until the patents had expired. Son-in-law Dr. Vincent E. Paul said, "He did very, very well in his career but he did not glean the royalties from Super Glue that you might think."
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