Cyanoacrylates (CA glues) were invented in 1942 by Dr. Harry Coover and Fred Joyner of Kodak Laboratories during experiments to make a transparent plastic suitable for gun sights.[8] Although not appropriate for the gun sights, they did find that cyanoacrylates would quickly glue together many materials with great strength. Seeing possibilities for a new adhesive, Kodak developed "Eastman #910" (later "Eastman 910") a few years later as the first true "super glue." The inventor of cyanoacrylates, Harry Coover, said in 1966 that a superglue spray was used in the Vietnam War to retard bleeding in wounded soldiers until they could be brought to a hospital. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanoacrylate BFritz/StL From: Carl Teplitski <koko99 at shaw.ca> To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] OT: CA Glue Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 19:08:08 -0500 I don't know if it's common knowledge, or I'm dreaming, but I thought I heard that C/A ( crazy glue ) was actually developed for the medical profession, -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100907/8e7b6782/attachment.htm>
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