Word: pyroceram
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medicine is only the beginning. Heat-resistant shields, developed to protect spacecraft plunging back into the earth's atmosphere, have led to the production of Pyroceram dishes that can go from the housewife's freezer to oven without cracking. The increasing complexity of astronavigation has fostered the development of swifter and smaller computers that find no end of applications on earth. The fuel cell used to supply electric power for Gemini spacecraft is being developed for commercial use, and its production of electricity from oxygen and hydrogen without burning hydrocarbons may be one answer to the smog problem...
...Research. With conspicuous exceptions, such as jet planes, and modern computers, defense research has yielded relatively little "fallout" of new civilian products. As a result of their work for NASA over the past three years, thousands of civilian contractors have received only 23 patents; NASA likes to claim that Pyroceram cooking pots and dishes are a result of research into nose cones, but the manufacturer, Corning Glass Works, denies it. Moreover, "fallout" seems to be shrinking as defense gear becomes increasingly esoteric. "Complexity breeds specialization-you find out everything there is to know about a progressively smaller area-and that...
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