In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, crew members of the USS Enterprise — Mr. Scott and Dr. McCoy — trade the formula for transparent aluminum, a material with glass-like transparency while ...

Now, it's happened again: "Transparent aluminum," a technology first suggested in the film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, has been developed for real. As reported via a video posted to Discovery ...

Researchers have improved transparent aluminum manufacturing to where it could be used for larger design. Could this Star Trek-inspired technology become real? By Joel Hruska April 29, 2015 ...

NRL is pressing spinel powder into transparent domes, sheets and other shapes. In the 1986 movie “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,” the Enterprise crew travels back from the 24 th century to ...

Star Trek has been known to inspire the occasional technological breakthrough, depicting a dreamt up, sci-fi creation decades before it becomes reality. You can now add transparent aluminum to ...

Scene from Star Trek 4 The classic scene from Star Trek IV The Voyage Home which sees Scotty and Dr Mccoy offering the secrets of Transparent Aluminum in return for glass to construct the wale tank.

It’s not transparent aluminum, exactly, but it might be even better: transparent wood. Scientists at the University of Maryland have devised a way to remove all of its coloring, leaving behin… ...

7. Scotty Brings Transparent Aluminum To 1986 - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Whenever a mysterious Scottish engineer comes up to you with a crazy idea, it's usually a good idea to listen to him.