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 Idabelle McGlauflin
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 Michael Faraday
Clamp the top of the tuning fork firmly above the smoked drum, adjusting it so that the point of the glass thread rests on the smoked paper.
From Common Science by John W. (John Woodside) Ritchie
While it is turning, tap the tuning fork on the prong which has not the glass thread fastened to it.
From Common Science by John W. (John Woodside) Ritchie
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