Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Glass - Glass and its importance in early science
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Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
The early history of glass and its discovery. The virtues of glass for civilization - transparent, inert, relatively easy to work. The amazing effects on light. Modern scientific advances are crucially dependent on glass, as Simon Schaffer explains in Faraday's laboratory. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-09 16:27 |
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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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