But plenty of technological and economic hurdles must be overcome before such motors gain widespread use in transportation.
But in many ways that interim, during which the Internet, e-mail and other technological innovations gained widespread use, seemed like a lifetime.
This was later inverted to put 0° on the cold end and 100° on the hot end, and in that form it gained widespread use.
The Itanium chip has been slow to gain widespread use, in part because of an earlier lack of software applications but also because of the high cost of machines that use it.
The Itanium chip, which runs in dual-processor server systems, has been slow to gain widespread use, in part because of an earlier lack of software applications, but also because of the typically high cost of machines that use it.
If structural-health monitoring is to gain widespread use, researchers said, the system must be smart enough to determine that a problem may be the result of a temperature difference, rather than the failure of a part.
Davor Sutija, Thinfilm's chief executive, thinks smart labels can printed for less than the cost of holograms, which are currently used to authenticate some goods.To gain widespread use, smart labels will need to be cheap.
And though he said he regretted not seeking more advice initially from the Border Patrol on developing the "virtual fence," the much-publicized and much-delayed system of cameras and sensors to supplement border personnel, Mr. Chertoff predicted that it would gain widespread use in the coming years.
A coaxial cable, which first gained widespread use during World War II, is a two-conductor cable in which one of the conductors takes the form of a tube while the other (smaller but also circular in cross section) is supported, with a minimum of solid insulation, at the centre of the tube.
