Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Glass - History of glass in the east and west
Duration: 5 mins 12 secs
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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.
Against the back-drop of a glass furnace near Birmingham, Alan Macfarlane describes the history of glass in the east and the west and some of the effects of this, in particular in relation to windows. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-09 16:36 |
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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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