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RIP Harry Coover
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Harry Wesley Coover Jr, known as the inventor of Super Glue, has died. He was 94
Coover received patent number 2,768,109 for his “Alcohol-Catalyzed Cyanoacrylate Adhesive Compositions/Superglue” and began refining the product for commercialization. His company packaged the adhesive as “Eastman 910” and began marketing it in 1958. Later it became known as Super Glue, and Coover became somewhat of a celebrity, appearing on television in the show “I've Got a Secret," where he lifted the host, Garry Moore, off the ground using a single drop of the substance. He also appeared in a TV commercial for the product.
Quite why anyone would have wanted to glue their thumb and forefinger together beats me, but the accidental inventor had a good innings. Til death do us apart. RIP.
Coover received patent number 2,768,109 for his “Alcohol-Catalyzed Cyanoacrylate Adhesive Compositions/Superglue” and began refining the product for commercialization. His company packaged the adhesive as “Eastman 910” and began marketing it in 1958. Later it became known as Super Glue, and Coover became somewhat of a celebrity, appearing on television in the show “I've Got a Secret," where he lifted the host, Garry Moore, off the ground using a single drop of the substance. He also appeared in a TV commercial for the product.
Quite why anyone would have wanted to glue their thumb and forefinger together beats me, but the accidental inventor had a good innings. Til death do us apart. RIP.
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RIPped my skin many times.0
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RIP0
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Aged 94, he finally came unstuck.0
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This thread should be made a <STICKY>0
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I knew about this last week --but my lips were sealed.0
