Actually Scotty was late.

In the late or middle 60's - Sandia announced the transparent Al - for windows in
bathrooms and elsewhere. They discovered it and advanced it to a product. Others
have licensed it and gone from there. Sandia is a National Laboratory of the U.S.A.
I used to service the account as a Senior Scientist while with Schlumberger.
It was some place.

Still is.

Martin
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Steve A wrote:
In article , says...

9xxx will be used for transparent aluminum.

Gunner



Does this count?

The Air Force Research Laboratory's materials and manufacturing directorate is testing
aluminum oxynitride -- ALONtm -- as a replacement for the traditional multi-layered glass
transparencies now used in existing ground and air armored vehicles.
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123012131

And Scotty was just a bit early for the mouse/microphone:
http://www.overclockers.com/articles1281/

SteveA

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