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Nation & World | Harry Coover forever stuck to his invention, Super Glue | Seattle Time... - 0 views

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inventor super glue Harry Coover

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  • 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.
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  • President Obama honored Mr. Coover in 2010 with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation
  • Mr. Coover led a team of chemists that became prolific patent holders, achieving more than 460.
  • organophosphate chemistry, the gasification of coal and of course, cyanoacrylate.
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    Good little article with some pretty good information about Harry Coover and some about the invention of superglue
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Harry Coover obituary | World news | The Guardian - 1 views

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inventor Harry Coover

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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,
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  • Fred Joyner, found that the lenses of a refractometer had been glued together
  • appeared on the market in 1958,
  • American medics would spray superglue over open wounds to seal them until the soldiers could be transported to hospitals.
  • Coover was born in Newark, Delaware.
  • chemistry from Hobart College, and gained a master's and PhD from Cornell University, all in upstate New York, then went to work in 1944 for Eastman Kodak
  • 1963, Eastman Kodak provided American Sealants with the formula for the adhesive,
  • Eastman 910.
  • he filed some 460 other patents, many of them hugely successful.
  • served on the board of the chemical company Reilly Industries
  • retired in 2004
  • inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
  • 2010 Coover received the national medal of technology and innovation from President Barack Obama.
  • Coover's wife, Muriel, died in 2005. He is survived by a daughter, Melinda, and two sons, Harry and Stephen. Melinda told the New York Times: "I think he got a kick out of being Mr Super Glue. Who doesn't love Super Glue?"
  • Harry Wesley Coover, research chemist, born 6 March 1917; died 26 March 2011
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    Good little article about Harry Coover
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Harry Wesley Coover Jr., 94, Inventor of Super Glue - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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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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    A really great video with as much information in a 3 minute video 
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inventor superglue Harry Coover

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  • Harry Coover was the accidental inventor of the household staple Super Glue.
  • discovered the adhesive twice,
  • born in 1917, in Newark, Delaware.
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  • studied chemistry at Hobart College and later completed a master's and a PhD in the same subject at Cornell University.
  • working as a young chemist for Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York, during the Second World War when he first came across Super Glue.
  • very difficult to test as it stuck to everything it touched. After a few abortive attempts to put the compound into moulds, Coover eventually gave up on it.
  • 1951 he was working at Eastman Kodak's laboratory in Tennessee, as part of a team testing compounds to find a heat-resistant polymer for use in aircraft cockpits.
  • destroyed an expensive piece of optical equipment by accidentally bonding its lenses with a drop of cyanoacrylate,
  • He glued together two metal parts and held on to the lower while it was lifted into the air. When he was lowered down, the presenter Barry Moore suggested they both try together.
  • marketing the adhesive as Eastman 910 in 1958
  • "It suddenly struck me that what we had was not a casting material but a super glue,"
  • Eastman 910 was soon being used in a variety of ways, but it quickly became known for its medical applications.
  • glue only really became a commercial success after the patents had expired and several other companies began developing their own versions.
  • especially its medical applications in the Vietnam War, when many medics carried a spray version of the glue to close wounds quickly. "There are lots of soldiers who would have bled to death," he said.
  • Coover worked for Eastman Kodak until he retired as vice president of the chemicals division for development in 1984. He held more than 460 patents.
  • Harry Coover Jr, inventor of Super Glue, was born on March 6, 1917. He died on March 26, 2011, aged 94
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    Good information about Harry Coover
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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
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      Good videos
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      A few great pictures
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      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
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hall of fame inventor profile

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  • arry Coover's discovery of cyanoacrylates, a class of chemicals with powerful adhesive properties, opened the door to a wide range of industrial, consumer, and medical applications, most notably as superglue. While working as a research chemist at Eastman Kodak during world war II, Coover worked with cyanocrylates in an effort to produce an optically clear plastic to use for precision gunsights. These chemicals proved to be unsuited to this particular task, but Coover recognized their potential applications as an adhesive.
  • Coover, who holds 460 patents, is also responsible for advances in the fields of graft polymerization, organophosphorus chemistry, and olefin polymerization
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    A great little website for both Harry Coover and his invention
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