10 Everyday Inventions That Exist Thanks To War

10. Superglue

In 1942, making products for the United States military was a very good way to get by, and the Goodrich Company was beavering away to do just that. In particular they were trying to find material that could be used to rapidly manufacture plastic gun sights.

What they made instead was a gloopy, weird-smelling, and above all sticky substance named cyanoacrylate. The substance is found in the wild as superglue or Krazy Glue, where it has been sticking scale model pieces to kids' fingertips for well over 60 years.

The military history of superglue doesn't end with its accidental discovery. During the Vietnam War, cyanoacrylate spray was used by medics to quickly seal wounds. It might have only been a temporary solution, but it was fast and it worked long enough to get casualties to a hospital.

The medical industry now has several medical forms of superglue to close tears in the skin, which is ironic since it was originally discovered while developing ways to make them