[QuadList] Semi-OT: SuperGlue discoverer passed away--How might it have been used on Quad machines?

[Ted Langdell]

The Kodak chemist that discovered Cyanoacrylate's adhesive properties  
during World War II died in Kingsport, Tennesee, Saturday.

Harry Wesley Coover, Jr.had 460 patents and introduced more than 320  
new products for Kodak, and retired in 1984 as a Kodak vice  
president.  Coover was 94.

During wartime research on clear plastic gunsights, he discovered the  
adhesive while working with acrylates. Unfortunately for Coover's  
project, the gunsights stuck to everything they came in contact with.

The substance found a use in 1951, when another Kodak researcher used  
it in a lens experiment and found it impossible to separate two lenses  
he'd coated with Cyanoacrylate and then pressed together.

Cyanoacrylate came to market in 1958 as Eastman 910.

Later known as SuperGlue, Coover's patent had expired by the time the  
sticky stuff became a household name.

Coover was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation  
last year by President Obama. He was inducted into the National  
Inventor's Hall of Fame in 2004.

What uses for Cyanoacrylate did manufacturers and engineers find on  
Quad machines?

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary
Skype: 	TedLangdell
e-mail:	ted at quadvideotapegroup.com

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