http://www.metafilter.com/tags/cyanoacrylates Posts tagged with 'cyanoacrylates' at MetaFilter. Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:20:42 -0800 Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:20:42 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/32821/Its%2DKrazy%2Dglue <a href="http://www.rochesterdandc.com/news/04305E43G2E_news.shtml">Serendipity saves lives</a> and holds a lot of things together. Harry Coover, an Eastman chemist, was trying to develop a plastic for gunsights. Instead he discovered <a href="http://www.gluguru.com/LoctiteCyanocrylates.htm">cyanoacrylates</a> otherwise known as Superglue. It's been sticking things and <a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002894.htm">people</a> together since 1952. Harry is being inducted into the <a href="http://www.invent.org/index.asp">National Inventors Hall of Fame</a> in Akron, Ohio. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.32821 Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:20:42 -0800 cyanoacrylates harrycoover superglue tommasz