NORTHLAND'S FAVORITE HITS » inventor http://kool1017.com Fri, 24 May 2013 21:52:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 William Staub, Inventor of the Treadmill, Dead at 96 http://kool1017.com/william-staub-inventor-of-the-treadmill-dead-at-96/ http://kool1017.com/william-staub-inventor-of-the-treadmill-dead-at-96/#comments Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:30:27 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=125188 Fitness pioneer William Staub, who invented the treadmill, has passed away at the ripe old age of 96.

And if you think you’re too old or out of shape to use his invention, think again — he was using one himself until just a couple months ago.

]]> http://kool1017.com/william-staub-inventor-of-the-treadmill-dead-at-96/feed/ 0 Paula Bronstein, Getty Images Super Glue Inventor Harry Wesley Coover Jr. Dead at 94 http://kool1017.com/super-glue-inventor-harry-wesley-coover-jr-dead-at-94/ http://kool1017.com/super-glue-inventor-harry-wesley-coover-jr-dead-at-94/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:28:03 +0000 Tony Hart http://kool1017.com/?p=3625 Super Glue inventor Harry Wesley Coover Jr. died Saturday night of congestive heart failure at his home in Kingsport, TN, the NY Times is reporting. He was 94.

Though he held over 460 patents in his career, Coover was best known for his revolutionary invention, which he created accidentally while testing compounds at Eastman Codak's Tennessee laboratory in 1951. Seven years after the accident, during which Coover ruined a $3,000 machine, the first version of Super Glue (called Eastman 910) was made available.

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