It is doubtful whether engineers working on the accelerometers used in Ariane launchers envisaged that one day the same technology would be used to turn the bath water on or that a shape memory actuator for releasing satellites would end up as a brace for teeth; but that is what technology transfer is all about. Find out more at: http://www.esa.int/ttp
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