The Sticky History of Adhesives
20th June 2019
Adhesives, you might say, have a bit of a sticky history. It’s easy to think about glue as we encounter it today: From bookshelves to flower beds to arts-and-crafts projects, we think of glue as an object to repair other things. It’s the stuff that sticks one thing to another–simple enough. Technologically, however, glue represents a complex series of decisions that our genus, Homo, has been making for millennia.