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Around 1750 the first glue was issued in Britian
The glue was made from fish. Patents were then rapidly issued for adhesives using natural rubber, animal bones, fish, starch, milk protein or casein. -
Paul Cope invented thermoplastic glue
Procter & Gamble chemical and packaging engineer, Paul Cope invented thermoplastic glue around 1940 as an improvement to water-based adhesives that were failing in humid climates. -
Dr. Harry Coover discovered cyanoacrylate
This was used to make an optically clear plastic for gunsights. -
Coover leaves something important
Coover rejected cyanoacrylate because it was to sticky -
Cyanoacrylate was rediscovered by Coover and Dr Fred Joyner.
Coover and Joyner were researching a heat-resistant acrylate polymer for jet canopies when Joyner spread a film of ethyl cyanoacrylate between refractometer prisms and discovered that the prisms were glued together. -
Coover realized the importantance of cyanoacrylate
Coover finally realized that cyanoacrylate was a useful product and in 1958 the Eastman compound #910 was marketed and later packaged as superglue. -
Archeologists find something new
Archeologists excavating burial sites from 4000 BC have discovered clay pots repaired with glue made from tree sap.
