glass thread
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Well, so did boats built of glass thread and resin.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
It took ten million feet of glass thread, and Eulaly will look real sweet in it.
From Samantha at the World's Fair by Grimm, Baron C. de
Take 1/2 in. of the platinum wire and slip it through the fine hole made by breaking the glass thread so that one-half of the wire will be inside of the long tube.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
