NewsTalk 1280 WGBF » inventor http://newstalk1280.com Thu, 23 May 2013 05:34:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Super Glue Inventor Harry Wesley Coover Jr. Dead at 94 http://newstalk1280.com/super-glue-inventor-harry-wesley-coover-jr-dead-at-94/ http://newstalk1280.com/super-glue-inventor-harry-wesley-coover-jr-dead-at-94/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:53:41 +0000 brad.bruner http://newstalk1280.com/?p=1504 Super Glue inventor Harry Wesley Coover Jr. died Saturday night of congestive heart failure at his home in Kingsport, TN, the NY Times is reporting. He was 94.

Though he held over 460 patents in his career, Coover was best known for his revolutionary invention, which he created accidentally while testing compounds at Eastman Codak's Tennessee laboratory in 1951. Seven years after the accident, during which Coover ruined a $3,000 machine, the first version of Super Glue (called Eastman 910) was made available.

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