Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Glass - Glass and Spectacles
Duration: 15 mins 32 secs
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Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’. With thanks to Windfall Films.
Simon Schaffer in Faraday's laboratory at the Royal Institution talks about spectacles, short-sightedness and glass. The reasons for the development of lenses. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-09 16:08 |
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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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