Nitinol was described in Roswell NM in 1947
Nitinol was described in Roswell NM in 1947
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It took a while for the material to get from the Army to the Navy. The Army didn’t want it because it didn’t go boom or stop a bullet so they asked around, filled reports, started and stopped committees, wrote white papers, and time just flew by and before you know it, some guy in a bar let it slip to a navy guy who told his superiors who asked politely and so acquired the otherwise useless alien material - we all know that humans are not smart enough to make new things and must rely on aliens to have any achievements at all.