Tony Sivori wrote:
David Nebenzahl wrote:

See http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/bu.../22barry1.html
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People's enthusiasm for sending in ideas for using WD-40 mushroomed
under Mr. Barry.

Norm Larson is the inventor of WD40. He died 39 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Larsen

Are you sure it wasn't 40 years ago. :-)