glass thread
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Well, so did boats built of glass thread and resin.
From Time Magazine Archive
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)
Break off about 8 inches of this glass thread and tie it firmly with cotton thread to the edge of one prong of a tuning fork.
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
