Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Glass - Scientific Glass Blowing

Duration: 24 mins 5 secs
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Description: Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’. With thanks to Windfall Films.

Jim Frost, for many years a scientific glass instrument maker at University College, London, demonstrates the making of small scientific instruments using a burner. He makes a lens and discusses the history of glass with Alan Macfarlane in a glass works near Birmingham.
 
Created: 2018-03-09 15:53
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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