WD-40 is a household name across 176 countries but it's also a name whose meaning not many people know. Since it's a chemical product with a random-numbers-and-letters name, you might think the name ...

Among the go-to items in many households for a variety of tasks is WD-40, which was derived in 1953 by a small chemical company on their 40 th attempt to perfect a water displacement formula. By 1993, ...

Some of the many uses that consumers have found for WD-40’s original formula are wilder than others. Consumers have so far put the WD-40 multi-use product, whose origins date back roughly 70 years, to ...

WD-40 Company traces its roots back to 1953 when a small team in San Diego, California, embarked on a mission to create a line of rust-prevention solvents and degreasers for the aerospace industry.

This story was originally featured on Field & Stream. If you could take the American spirit—equal parts Daniel Boone, Chuck Yeager, and Elon Musk—and distill it into an aerosol, it would be a blue-and ...