Sometimes the best way to get a working technology is as a spin-off from a practical implementation. I'm thinking about how building a superconducting particle

Sometimes the best way to get a working technology is as a spin-off from a practical implementation. I'm thinking about how building a superconducting particle accelerator led to great advances in the production of superconducting titanium-niobium. It was because these components were going to be used, that the effective technology emerged.