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[VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies
FYI: Creator Of Super Glue Dies At 94 Manufacturing.Net - March 28, 2011 addthis_pub = 'abm-mnet'; KINGSPORT, Tennessee (AP) -- Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of Super Glue, has died. He was 94. Coover was working for Tennessee Eastman Company, a division of Eastman Kodak, when an accident helped lead to the popular adhesive being discovered, according to his grandson, Adam Paul of South Carolina. An assistant was distressed that some brand new refractometer prisms were ruined when they were glued together by the substance. In 1951, Coover and another researcher recognized the potential for the strong adhesive, and it was first sold in 1958, according to the Super Glue Corp.'s website. Cyanoacrylate, 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. But the compound stuck to everything, which is why it was rejected by researchers, the website said. President Barack Obama honored Coover in 2010 with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Coover died Saturday at his home in Kingsport, Tennessee, his grandson said. He was born in Newark, Delaware, and received a degree in chemistry from Hobart College in New York before getting a master's degree and Ph.D., from Cornell. He worked his way up to vice president of the chemical division for development for Eastman Kodak. Coover and the team of chemists he worked with became prolific patent holders, achieving more than 460. The work included polymers, organophosphate chemistry, the gasification of coal and of course, cyanoacrylate. Coover also had a part in early television history, appearing with Garry Moore for I've got a Secret. Moore, the show's host, and Coover were hung in the air on bars that were stuck to metal supports with a single drop of his glue during a live television broadcast. The Industrial Research Institute, for which he served as president in 1982, honored Coover with a gold medal and the U.S. Patent Office inducted him into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio in 2004. Wayneb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
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And the best use of his invention was closing wounds of soldiers in Viet Nam. It is still being used for some surgical procedures. From: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com [mailto:vfb-mail@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Blake-Hedges Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 7:41 AM To: virtual flybox Subject: [VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies FYI: Creator Of Super Glue Dies At 94 Manufacturing.Net - March 28, 2011 [Description: Image removed by sender. Printer Friendly]javascript:PrintThisPage() [Description: Image removed by sender.] http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php [Description: Image removed by sender. E-mail to a Colleague] http://www.manufacturing.net/News/2011/03/Offbeat-News-Creator-Of-Super-Glue-Dies-At-94/?et_cid=1328704et_rid=54702072linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.manufacturing.net%2fNews%2f2011%2f03%2fOffbeat-News-Creator-Of-Super-Glue-Dies-At-94%2f#EmailColleague [Description: Image removed by sender. Loading...] KINGSPORT, Tennessee (AP) -- Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of Super Glue, has died. He was 94. Coover was working for Tennessee Eastman Company, a division of Eastman Kodak, when an accident helped lead to the popular adhesive being discovered, according to his grandson, Adam Paul of South Carolina. An assistant was distressed that some brand new refractometer prisms were ruined when they were glued together by the substance. In 1951, Coover and another researcher recognized the potential for the strong adhesive, and it was first sold in 1958, according to the Super Glue Corp.'s website. Cyanoacrylate, 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. But the compound stuck to everything, which is why it was rejected by researchers, the website said. President Barack Obama honored Coover in 2010 with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Coover died Saturday at his home in Kingsport, Tennessee, his grandson said. He was born in Newark, Delaware, and received a degree in chemistry from Hobart College in New York before getting a master's degree and Ph.D., from Cornell. He worked his way up to vice president of the chemical division for development for Eastman Kodak. Coover and the team of chemists he worked with became prolific patent holders, achieving more than 460. The work included polymers, organophosphate chemistry, the gasification of coal and of course, cyanoacrylate. Coover also had a part in early television history, appearing with Garry Moore for I've got a Secret. Moore, the show's host, and Coover were hung in the air on bars that were stuck to metal supports with a single drop of his glue during a live television broadcast. The Industrial Research Institute, for which he served as president in 1982, honored Coover with a gold medal and the U.S. Patent Office inducted him into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio in 2004. Wayneb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.cominline: ~WRD000.jpginline: image001.jpg
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Hi Gary; I love all the mystery surrounding super glue. Found it interesting to read a little truth about for once. Wayneb --- On Fri, 4/1/11, Webb, Gary glw...@gundluth.org wrote: From: Webb, Gary glw...@gundluth.org Subject: RE: [VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 10:20 AM And the best use of his invention was closing wounds of soldiers in Viet Nam. It is still being used for some surgical procedures. From: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com [mailto:vfb-mail@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Blake-Hedges Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 7:41 AM To: virtual flybox Subject: [VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies FYI: Creator Of Super Glue Dies At 94 Manufacturing.Net - March 28, 2011 KINGSPORT, Tennessee (AP) -- Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of Super Glue, has died. He was 94. Coover was working for Tennessee Eastman Company, a division of Eastman Kodak, when an accident helped lead to the popular adhesive being discovered, according to his grandson, Adam Paul of South Carolina. An assistant was distressed that some brand new refractometer prisms were ruined when they were glued together by the substance. In 1951, Coover and another researcher recognized the potential for the strong adhesive, and it was first sold in 1958, according to the Super Glue Corp.'s website. Cyanoacrylate, 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. But the compound stuck to everything, which is why it was rejected by researchers, the website said. President Barack Obama honored Coover in 2010 with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Coover died Saturday at his home in Kingsport, Tennessee, his grandson said. He was born in Newark, Delaware, and received a degree in chemistry from Hobart College in New York before getting a master's degree and Ph.D., from Cornell. He worked his way up to vice president of the chemical division for development for Eastman Kodak. Coover and the team of chemists he worked with became prolific patent holders, achieving more than 460. The work included polymers, organophosphate chemistry, the gasification of coal and of course, cyanoacrylate. Coover also had a part in early television history, appearing with Garry Moore for I've got a Secret. Moore, the show's host, and Coover were hung in the air on bars that were stuck to metal supports with a single drop of his glue during a live television broadcast. The Industrial Research Institute, for which he served as president in 1982, honored Coover with a gold medal and the U.S. Patent Office inducted him into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio in 2004. Wayneb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.cominline: ~WRD000.jpginline: image001.jpg
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No one mentions the benefits of the Super-glue fumes. Dr. D What Benefits? Buggs If you don't know, we won't tell you. Veronica - Original Message - From: Wayne Blake-Hedges To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 11:17 AM Subject: RE: [VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies Hi Gary; I love all the mystery surrounding super glue. Found it interesting to read a little truth about for once. Wayneb --- On Fri, 4/1/11, Webb, Gary glw...@gundluth.org wrote: From: Webb, Gary glw...@gundluth.org Subject: RE: [VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 10:20 AM And the best use of his invention was closing wounds of soldiers in Viet Nam. It is still being used for some surgical procedures. From: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com [mailto:vfb-mail@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Blake-Hedges Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 7:41 AM To: virtual flybox Subject: [VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies FYI: Creator Of Super Glue Dies At 94 Manufacturing.Net - March 28, 2011 KINGSPORT, Tennessee (AP) -- Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of Super Glue, has died. He was 94. Coover was working for Tennessee Eastman Company, a division of Eastman Kodak, when an accident helped lead to the popular adhesive being discovered, according to his grandson, Adam Paul of South Carolina. An assistant was distressed that some brand new refractometer prisms were ruined when they were glued together by the substance. In 1951, Coover and another researcher recognized the potential for the strong adhesive, and it was first sold in 1958, according to the Super Glue Corp.'s website. Cyanoacrylate, 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. But the compound stuck to everything, which is why it was rejected by researchers, the website said. President Barack Obama honored Coover in 2010 with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Coover died Saturday at his home in Kingsport, Tennessee, his grandson said. He was born in Newark, Delaware, and received a degree in chemistry from Hobart College in New York before getting a master's degree and Ph.D., from Cornell. He worked his way up to vice president of the chemical division for development for Eastman Kodak. Coover and the team of chemists he worked with became prolific patent holders, achieving more than 460. The work included polymers, organophosphate chemistry, the gasification of coal and of course, cyanoacrylate. Coover also had a part in early television history, appearing with Garry Moore for I've got a Secret. Moore, the show's host, and Coover were hung in the air on bars that were stuck to metal supports with a single drop of his glue during a live television broadcast. The Industrial Research Institute, for which he served as president in 1982, honored Coover with a gold medal and the U.S. Patent Office inducted him into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio in 2004. Wayneb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To
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You watch too much CSI... Sent from my iPad On 1 apr. 2011, at 21:19, Don Ordes f...@tribcsp.com wrote: No one mentions the benefits of the Super-glue fumes. Dr. D What Benefits? Buggs If you don't know, we won't tell you. Veronica - Original Message - From: Wayne Blake-Hedges To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 11:17 AM Subject: RE: [VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies Hi Gary; I love all the mystery surrounding super glue. Found it interesting to read a little truth about for once. Wayneb --- On Fri, 4/1/11, Webb, Gary glw...@gundluth.org wrote: From: Webb, Gary glw...@gundluth.org Subject: RE: [VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 10:20 AM And the best use of his invention was closing wounds of soldiers in Viet Nam. It is still being used for some surgical procedures. From: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com [mailto:vfb-mail@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Blake-Hedges Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 7:41 AM To: virtual flybox Subject: [VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies FYI: Creator Of Super Glue Dies At 94 Manufacturing.Net - March 28, 2011 ~WRD000.jpg image001.jpg ~WRD000.jpg ~WRD000.jpg KINGSPORT, Tennessee (AP) -- Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of Super Glue, has died. He was 94. Coover was working for Tennessee Eastman Company, a division of Eastman Kodak, when an accident helped lead to the popular adhesive being discovered, according to his grandson, Adam Paul of South Carolina. An assistant was distressed that some brand new refractometer prisms were ruined when they were glued together by the substance. In 1951, Coover and another researcher recognized the potential for the strong adhesive, and it was first sold in 1958, according to the Super Glue Corp.'s website. Cyanoacrylate, 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. But the compound stuck to everything, which is why it was rejected by researchers, the website said. President Barack Obama honored Coover in 2010 with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Coover died Saturday at his home in Kingsport, Tennessee, his grandson said. He was born in Newark, Delaware, and received a degree in chemistry from Hobart College in New York before getting a master's degree and Ph.D., from Cornell. He worked his way up to vice president of the chemical division for development for Eastman Kodak. Coover and the team of chemists he worked with became prolific patent holders, achieving more than 460. The work included polymers, organophosphate chemistry, the gasification of coal and of course, cyanoacrylate. Coover also had a part in early television history, appearing with Garry Moore for I've got a Secret. Moore, the show's host, and Coover were hung in the air on bars that were stuck to metal supports with a single drop of his glue during a live television broadcast. The Industrial Research Institute, for which he served as president in 1982, honored Coover with a gold medal and the U.S. Patent Office inducted him into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio in 2004. Wayneb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at
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Who cares about fingerprints? Dr. D just likes the fumes. DonO And it hold my mouse eyes in place pretty well. - Original Message - From: Henk Verhaar To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies You watch too much CSI... Sent from my iPad On 1 apr. 2011, at 21:19, Don Ordes f...@tribcsp.com wrote: No one mentions the benefits of the Super-glue fumes. Dr. D What Benefits? Buggs If you don't know, we won't tell you. Veronica - Original Message - From: Wayne Blake-Hedges To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 11:17 AM Subject: RE: [VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies Hi Gary; I love all the mystery surrounding super glue. Found it interesting to read a little truth about for once. Wayneb --- On Fri, 4/1/11, Webb, Gary glw...@gundluth.org wrote: From: Webb, Gary glw...@gundluth.org Subject: RE: [VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 10:20 AM And the best use of his invention was closing wounds of soldiers in Viet Nam. It is still being used for some surgical procedures. From: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com [mailto:vfb-mail@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Blake-Hedges Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 7:41 AM To: virtual flybox Subject: [VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies FYI: Creator Of Super Glue Dies At 94 Manufacturing.Net - March 28, 2011 ~WRD000.jpg image001.jpg ~WRD000.jpg ~WRD000.jpg KINGSPORT, Tennessee (AP) -- Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of Super Glue, has died. He was 94. Coover was working for Tennessee Eastman Company, a division of Eastman Kodak, when an accident helped lead to the popular adhesive being discovered, according to his grandson, Adam Paul of South Carolina. An assistant was distressed that some brand new refractometer prisms were ruined when they were glued together by the substance. In 1951, Coover and another researcher recognized the potential for the strong adhesive, and it was first sold in 1958, according to the Super Glue Corp.'s website. Cyanoacrylate, 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. But the compound stuck to everything, which is why it was rejected by researchers, the website said. President Barack Obama honored Coover in 2010 with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Coover died Saturday at his home in Kingsport, Tennessee, his grandson said. He was born in Newark, Delaware, and received a degree in chemistry from Hobart College in New York before getting a master's degree and Ph.D., from Cornell. He worked his way up to vice president of the chemical division for development for Eastman Kodak. Coover and the team of chemists he worked with became prolific patent holders, achieving more than 460. The work included polymers, organophosphate chemistry, the gasification of coal and of course, cyanoacrylate. Coover also had a part in early television history, appearing with Garry Moore for I've got a Secret. Moore, the show's host, and Coover were hung in the air on bars that were stuck to metal supports with a single drop of his glue during a live television broadcast. The Industrial Research Institute, for which he served as president in 1982, honored Coover with a gold medal and the U.S. Patent Office inducted him into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio in 2004. Wayneb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group
Re: [VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies
I like the smell of superglue in the morning, reminds me of..of... what
were we talking about???
Wayneb
--- On Fri, 4/1/11, Don Ordes f...@tribcsp.com wrote:
From: Don Ordes f...@tribcsp.com
Subject: Re: [VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 3:19 PM
No one mentions the benefits of the Super-glue fumes.
Dr. D
What Benefits?
Buggs
If you don't know, we won't tell you.
Veronica
- Original Message -
From: Wayne Blake-Hedges
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 11:17 AM
Subject: RE: [VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies
Hi Gary;
I love all the mystery surrounding super glue. Found it interesting to read a
little truth about for once.
Wayneb
--- On Fri, 4/1/11, Webb, Gary glw...@gundluth.org wrote:
From: Webb, Gary glw...@gundluth.org
Subject: RE: [VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 10:20 AM
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And the best use of his invention was closing wounds of soldiers in Viet Nam.
It is still being used for some surgical procedures.
From: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com [mailto:vfb-mail@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Wayne Blake-Hedges
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 7:41 AM
To: virtual flybox
Subject: [VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies
FYI:
Creator Of Super Glue Dies At 94
Manufacturing.Net - March 28, 2011
KINGSPORT, Tennessee (AP) -- Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of
Super Glue, has died. He was 94.
Coover was working for Tennessee Eastman Company, a division of Eastman Kodak,
when an accident helped lead to the popular adhesive being discovered,
according to his grandson, Adam Paul of South Carolina. An assistant was
distressed that some brand new refractometer prisms were ruined when they were
glued together by the substance.
In 1951, Coover and another researcher recognized the potential for the strong
adhesive, and it was first sold in 1958, according to the Super Glue Corp.'s
website.
Cyanoacrylate, 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. But the
compound stuck to everything, which is why it was rejected by researchers, the
website said.
President Barack Obama honored Coover in 2010 with the National Medal of
Technology and Innovation.
Coover died Saturday at his home in Kingsport, Tennessee, his grandson said. He
was born in Newark, Delaware, and received a degree in chemistry from Hobart
College in New York before getting a master's degree and Ph.D., from Cornell.
He worked his way up to vice president of the chemical division for development
for Eastman Kodak. Coover and the team of chemists he worked with became
prolific patent holders, achieving more than 460. The work included polymers,
organophosphate chemistry, the gasification of coal and of course,
cyanoacrylate.
Coover also had a part in early television history, appearing with Garry Moore
for I've got a Secret. Moore, the show's host, and Coover were hung in the
air on bars that were stuck to metal supports with a single drop of his glue
during a live television broadcast.
The Industrial Research Institute, for which he
[VFB] RE: Superglue creator dies
An assistant was distressed that some brand new refractometer prisms were ruined when they were glued together by the substance. Refractomer/ Brings back memories. I was asked to synthesize a new intermediate in 'large scale'. When I tried to use the refractometer to measure it's refractive index, I found out it was a severe lachramator (tear gas). I jumped up from the bench and knocked the flask containing about a pound of the liquid off. It shattered on the hard floor. I emptied the entire research building of the company (about 400 people) for a couple of hours. I had to go back in (with a gas mask) and wash the entire lab with alcohol to get it all cleaned up. Even though I was wearing a lab uniform, after I changed and went home that evening, my wife and 1-yr old son both started having severe eye watering. I had to take two showers and leave my clothes outside till they were laundered. The good news was that they decided they didn't really want that stuff around and I didn't have to make any more. A - (not so) fond memories of diethylacetylenedicarboxylate. a. -- Allan Fish Greenwood, IN afi...@sbcglobal.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
