8th Grade Inventor Research 2014

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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.

After his father's death in 1938,[2] Frank Factor at the urging of his family legally changed his name to Max Factor, Jr. and as president expanded the still private cosmetics firm, along with members of the immediate family. He was heavily involved with the development of new products, particularly "Tru-Color" released in 1940 as the first smear-proof lipstick.

Max Factor, Jr. was married in 1933 to Mildred “Milly” Cohen with whom he remained for thirty-seven years until her death in 1970.[3] The couple raced Thoroughbred horses for many years.

Max Factor, Jr., died in 1996 of heart failure in Los Angeles, California, and was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.