Timeline for Why did Scotty not recognize the inventor of transparent aluminum?
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| Jan 20, 2017 at 12:42 | comment | added | user | @Jared Wikipedia has a whole article on flux capacitors. Raymond Chen has written up a derivation of the term. | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 1:29 | comment | added | DougM | fwiw, Franklin was likely familiar with the Leyden Jar, a kind of basic capacitor. | |
| Nov 8, 2011 at 14:45 | comment | added | erdiede | @SteveJackson That makes much more sense | |
| Nov 8, 2011 at 14:00 | comment | added | Steve Jackson | @erdiede - they traded the formula for sheets of 6 inch acrylic. Basically Scott and McCoy had no cash, so Nichols traded a few thousand dollars of material for something potentially worth millions. | |
| Nov 8, 2011 at 1:00 | comment | added | erdiede | Just knowing the formula of something doesn't facilitate actually making it. Yes, a lot of things can be made by just throwing a couple ingredients together and stirring. Most slightly more complicated molecules, however, require some fairly specific conditions for them to come out right. While in the long run, its less of a problem, already having the answer. But I thought they manufactured the stuff overnight. Pretty crazy. | |
| Nov 8, 2011 at 0:36 | comment | added | Jared | draw me a flux capacitor! | |
| Nov 5, 2011 at 15:40 | comment | added | Xantec | Exactly. By Scotty's time transparent aluminum was a mundane object which, being an engineer, Scotty knew how to make (or at least knew the chemical composition of). | |
| Nov 5, 2011 at 13:59 | history | answered | Steve Jackson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |