ABSTRACT
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Dr. Harry Coover €rst worked with cyanoacrylate monomers in 1942 while searching for a material to make clear plastic gun sights. He rejected the material as being too sticky. Cyanoacrylates were also synthesized by Ardis in 1949. The €rst accidental discovery of the powerful adhesive properties inherent in ethyl cyanoacrylate occurred in 1951 [1]. While attempting to measure the refractive index of freshly synthesized ethyl cyanoacrylate monomer, Joyner and Shearer (working for Coover at Eastman) found that the glass prism faces of the refractometer became €rmly bonded together. Ultimately the methylbased adhesive, Eastman 910, would be marketed as Super Glue® in 1958.
