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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

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.

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discovered by accident, the result of the thoroughness of Harry Coover, who has died aged 94.

Coover was experimenting with clear plastics to create unbreakable precision gunsights

1951, at Eastman's chemical division in Kingsport, Tennessee,

Dr. Harry Coover, inventor of Super Glue.

introduced in 1973, Super Glue was first discovered in 1942 by Coover

trying to make materials for plastic gun sights for soldiers

Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of Super Glue, died Saturday at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. He was 94

1951, Mr. Coover and another researcher recognized the potential for the strong adhesive, and it was first sold in 1958,

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.

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

Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Brandenberger’s invention of cellophane and its widespread use earned him the Franklin Institute’s Gold Medal.

Harry Wesley Coover Jr shortly before be awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by Barack Obama

17 November 2010

(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."