8th Grade Inventor Research 2014

Sales for cellophane steadily grew through the 1940s and 50s

1951, while working for Eastman Kodak, Coover and another scientist, Fred Joyner rediscovered the material, which they called Eastman 910 and saw its commercial benefit.

Although Coover never actually financially capitalized on Super Glue

worked for the Eastman Kodak company until he retired

he held more than 460 patents

2004 he was inducted to the National Inventors Hall of Fame and was honored by President Obama for his discovery last November with a National Medal of Science.

graduation in 1930

ventually selling 60 million yards

multi-million dollar company.

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.

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