ORIGINAL: SkidMan
ORIGINAL: Gray Beard
Pretty silly statement, CA is the new kid on the block.
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From Straight Dope:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/...nds-in-vietnam
Super glue, Krazy glue, Eastman 910 and similar glues are all a special type of glue called cyanoacrylates. Cyanoacrylates were invented in 1942 by Dr. Harry Coover of Kodak Laboratories during experiments to make a special extra-clear plastic suitable for gun sights. He found they weren't suitable for that purpose, so he set the formula aside. Six years later he pulled it out of the drawer thinking it might be useful as a new plastic for airplane canopies. Wrong againbut he did find that cyanoacrylates would glue together many materials with incredible strength and quick action, including two very expensive prisms when he tried to test the ocular qualities of the substance. Seeing possibilities for a new adhesive, Kodak developed ''Eastman #910'' (later ''Eastman 910'') a few years later as the first true ''super glue.'' In a now-famous demonstration conducted in 1959, Dr. Coover displayed the strength of this new product on the early television show ''I've Got a Secret,'' where he used a single drop placed between two steel cylinders to lift the host of the show, Garry Moore, completely off of the ground.
And until it came out to the general public as Super glue very few people knew a thing about it. That was in the 60s. Before that we used Testors and Ambroids or just Elmers wood glue. Super glue was in very small containers and cost so much it wasn't used for building very much at all. First time I saw the 910 was in 1963 when my father brought home a two ounce bottle, he was in Aerospace and they were using it for different applacations. It took a lot more years for CA to hit the modeling world or the open market as it is today. I buy it in 8 ounce bottles these days, $20.00 a pop. In the 80s when CA was catching on it was usually only found in one ounce bottles and just showing up in hobby shops. Compared to any of the wood glues CA is just a baby. Now we have Gorilla glue and it's getting better and better with more uses for modeling.