Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Glass - How a glass mirror is made

Duration: 14 mins 32 secs
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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.

Graham Reed demonstrates how a mirror is made and discusses with Alan Macfarlane the significance of the development of mirrors. [burnt in time code]
 
Created: 2018-03-09 16:51
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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