glass thread
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Well, so did boats built of glass thread and resin.
From Time Magazine Archive
I expect some of the glass thread with which the hull of the ship was made could be inserted with no trouble.
From Where I Wasn't Going by Richmond, Walt
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
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 Ritchie, John W. (John Woodside)
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.
