Super Glue Inventor Dead at 94

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The name Harry Wesley Coover Jr., who died Saturday at the age of 94, might not ring a bell, but you’ve almost certainly heard of his most famous invention: Super Glue. Coover first stumbled upon the adhesive (formal name: cyanoacrylates) while working on clear plastic gun-sights during World War II;…

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