"John Smith" wrote in message
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Dee:

This is going to sound like a joke (and heaven knows I NEVER JOKE!--but it
isn't...), I once heard the little windshield wiper pumps, the ones which
spray on the window cleaner were the by-product of nasa technology adopted
by the auto industry; you wouldn't know about that, would you?

Funny, but that question has stuck in my mind for years. I had made a
mental note to ask, if ever given the chance... sometimes doesn't take
much to entertain me... frown I actually doubt it... I mean, the
cleaner would freeze in the tank in space, immediately freeze and/or
crystallize to ice when discharged, etc...

or, perhaps they meant the pumps used by nasa were actually for another
purpose and just adapted to windshields here on terafirma...

John


Don't know about the pumps unfortunately. However it is amazing some of the
things that came out of the space program. The original ball point pen was
one. In the form developed for NASA, they would write in any position and
did not have to rely on gravity feed for the ink (more of a capillary action
or some such and took very high quality ink). This was then commercialized
in a much cheaper form for the public. These are the pens that would cease
to write if you had the point higher than the body.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE