Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Glass - Scientific Glass Blowing
Duration: 24 mins 5 secs
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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. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-09 15:53 |
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| 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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