Projects
- A World War II artillery fuse.
- Bismanol- an iron-manganese alloy (a portmanteau of Bismuth + manganese + NOL- the initials of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory).
- Nitinol, the well-known shape-changing nickel-titanium alloy (a portmanteau of nickel + titanium + NOL- the initials of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory).
- Hypervelocity wind tunnel testing of Space Shuttle models for NASA.
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