In 1942, an Eastman Kodak investment in military technology took a strange turn. Dr. Harry Coovers team, pursuing the development of plastic gun sights, made an accidental discovery of a chemical formula called cyanoacrylate. It was a complete failure, a sticky nuisance that ruined valuable lab property. With no apparent use, this discovery was shelved and forgotten. Nine years later, the same frustrating technology resurfaced during a research project for jet canopies. This time, however, Dr. C