glass thread
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Well, so did boats built of glass thread and resin.
From Time Magazine Archive
While it is turning, tap the tuning fork on the prong which has not the glass thread fastened to it.
From Common Science by Ritchie, John W. (John Woodside)
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
A thick glass thread is wound around the neck.
From Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy by Stockton, Frank Richard
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
