Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Glass - Examples of lenses and glass receptacles

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Description: Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.

Close ups of various kinds of lenses, including plano-convex ones, and bottles in Faraday's laboratory in the Royal Institution, demonstrated by Simon Schaffer.
 
Created: 2018-03-09 16:24
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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