How to pronounce “coover” in English

Coover showed the material to his coworker Fred Joyner, but gave him strict instructions.

Coover immediately saw its potential in medicine, and he went to work.

- Coover said it took the right mindset to see cyanoacrylate as a great adhesive.

Coover's ability to look beyond roadblocks and see the breakthroughs on the other side is a skill that every great innovator shares.

- But Coover didn't have the modern plastics we have today.

As Coover said, this should serve as a reminder to all of us to be open-minded and curious enough to pursue unexplained events and unexpected results,

Chemist Harry Coover was working on a compound called cyanoacrylate.

The US military was very interested in Coover's adhesive, and they developed a medical super glue spray for use in the Vietnam War.

In the 74 years since Coover's accidental discovery, cyanoacrylate has grown to become a $3 billion industry.

By 1951, Coover was again trying to develop a clear plastic.

- One day, Coover's eldest son was making a model, when he accidentally cut his finger.

Remarkably, Coover and his team found that all of these problems could be solved with a single change to the molecule: Simply increase the number of carbons in the alkyl chain.

But instead of getting angry, Coover had a flash of insight.

To demonstrate this and promote his new product, Coover went on a game show.

As a quick-thinking and experimentally-minded father, Coover got some super glue he brought home from the lab and applied it to the cut.

With the main problems addressed, Coover submitted an application to the FDA in 1964 for medical superglue.

But its impact doesn't stop there, because now scientists are turning to Coover's original research, exploring its use as a plastic,

Despite its success on the battlefield, medical superglue was held up in bureaucratic red tape for years, so long that Coover had to abandon the project.