Ah, super glue — the greatest-of-all-time fast-acting adhesive for all of your stuck-together needs. Chances are, you have a tube of this in that kitchen drawer, you know, the one with all the takeout ...

Dr Harry Wesley Coover, the man who invented Super Glue was working for Tennessee Eastman Company, a division of Kodak, when an accident led to the discovery of the popular adhesive. In 1942, as a ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) — Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of Super Glue, has died at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. He was 94. Coover was working for Tennessee Eastman Company when an ...

On October 14, President Barack Obama announced that the Cornell alumnus who invented super glue was among four scientists awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Harry Coover M.S.

Many inventions happen not by design but through failure. They don’t happen through the failure directly, but because someone was paying attention and remembered the how and why of the failure, and ...

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