. . . . Glass, one of the first synthetic materials to be made by humankind, was invented in Mesopotamia, the cradle of the first cities, sometime in the third millennium B.C. . . . Page 138
One of the first artificial substance synthesized by humanity more than 5,500 years ago, glass has enabled us to investigate nature and construct new technologies, from the first pair of reading spectacles to the Hubble Space Telescope. Of the six instruments crucial to the development of the modern scientific enterprise in the seventeenth century, all of which would be indispensible in rediscovering the world after an apocalypse -- pendulum clock, thermometer, barometer, telescope, microscope, and vacuum chamber with air pump -- all but one of them, the pendulum clock rely utterly on the unique combination of properties offered by glass. ~ Page 143
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Dinesh said:
One of the first artificial substance synthesized by humanity more than 5,500 years ago, glass has enabled us to investigate nature and construct new technologies, from the first pair of reading spectacles to the Hubble Space Telescope. Of the six instruments crucial to the development of the modern scientific enterprise in the seventeenth century, all of which would be indispensible in rediscovering the world after an apocalypse -- pendulum clock, thermometer, barometer, telescope, microscope, and vacuum chamber with air pump -- all but one of them, the pendulum clock rely utterly on the unique combination of properties offered by glass. ~ Page 143
J.Garcia said: