“Uncovering the Sticky Secret: The Surprising Inventor Behind Super Glue’s Revolutionary Bond!”
“The cyanoacrylate adhesive invention and discovery really involved one day of serendipity and about 10 years of hard work.”
But whatever the case, one thing is clear: superglue, like all good ideas, just sort of stuck.
Expand for References
O’Brien, Caitlin, How World War II Led to the Invention of Super Glue, Military Times, July 30, 2021, https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2021/07/30/how-world-war-ii-led-to-the-invention-of-super-glue/
The Invention of Super Glue, https://www.cedesa.co.uk/who-invented-superglue/
Harris, Elizabeth, Harry Coover, Super Glue’s Inventor, Dies at 94, The New York Times, March 27, 2011, https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/business/28coover.html
Creagar, Reid, Serendipity Shaped Life of Super Glue Inventor, Inventors Digest, January 4, 2017, https://www.inventorsdigest.com/articles/serendipity-shaped-life-super-glue-inventor/
Atherton, Kelsey, How a Shot at Making Better Gunsights Became Super Glue Instead, Popular Science, July 20, 2023, https://www.popsci.com/technology/super-glue-invention-mistake/
Harry Coover and the Invention of Super Glue, SciHi Blog, March 6, 2022, http://scihi.org/harry-coover-super-glue-cyanoacrylate/
The post Who Invented Super Glue? appeared first on Today I Found Out.
