glass thread

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Well, so did boats built of glass thread and resin.

From Time Magazine Archive

This fiber, placed under a microscope, looks like a glass thread.

From Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care by McGlauflin, Idabelle

Now the workmen draw back the iron rods, which are still attached to the hot mass, and a glass thread is seen connecting them to the centre ball.

From Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

A thick glass thread is wound around the neck.

From Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy by Stockton, Frank Richard

The upper end of the glass thread was attached, as in Coulomb's original electrometer, to an index, which had its appropriate graduated circle, upon which the degree of torsion was ultimately to be read off.

From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael