On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:52:48 -0700, William Sommerwerck wrote:

From what I've heard/read, cyanoacrylate was developed as a substitute
for stitching wounds together on the battlefield during the Vietnam
war.

It was actually developed by Kodak in 1942, and was originally used to
splice film.

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

Well dammit I won't have that story to tell my grand children.



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