Of Great and Continuing Moment: THE AGE OF GLASS
From the electronic archive ... situated historically in the stunningly important and impactful AGE of GLASS, which dates from about 2,500 BCE to the ongoing present. Glass is not just for:
beer and wine bottles, test tubes and Petri dishes, microscope and telescope lenses, cameras, the early production eye glasses (now they're mostly plastic, for example, polycarbonate), windshields and windows, watch faces, electric light bulbs, glass thermometers, early day glass radio tubes, television tubes (including cathode ray displays), then silicon semiconductors (the chemical formula for glass is SiO2 (silicon dioxide)), transistors to integrated circuits to micro chips, displays on our digital devices( such as iPhones (late 2007), and as well, all the way to optic fiber (of glass!) forming the backbone of our information super highways.
And of course there's always flamework glass beads, and various blown work - vases, cups, and so on.
and now for the catchy jingles ....
Play with fire (safely)! Become mesmerized by the lure of the melt. Hot Glass: Get into and be beguiled by the flow.
"Glass: New & Improving since 2,500 BCE"
