A Kodak scientist named Harry Coover came up with the formulation during World War II while searching for a way to make plastic gun-sight lenses. Coover rejected it out of hand because it was, well, "too sticky." In 1959, the new glue became a sensation after being demonstrated on the TV show 'I've Got a Secret': Host Garry Moore was lifted into the air by 2 massive steel plates held together with a single drop of the "miraculous" Eastman 910.