Relates the authors recollection ten years after the March 1987 meeting of the American Physical Society in which high-temperature superconductivity was first announced. The work of W.K. Wu and C.W. Chu; The six months following the 1986 publication of the paper on layered copper-oxide perovskites by Georg Berdnorz and Alex Muller; The unexpected length of time physicists have had developing applications for the discovery.