[QuadList] Semi-OT: SuperGlue discoverer passed away--How might it have b...

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good stuff1
 
ok reading my mail in reverse order.. I got this  this  message...  Ted.... 
what was  your  source on the lens  experiment...  I would like to  know  
more...
 
Thanks,

Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC  

See  

 
In a message dated 3/28/2011 8:22:41 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
ted at quadvideotapegroup.com writes:

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_ (mailto:ted at quadvideotapegroup.com) 







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