The only instruments capable of measuring such vibrations, though, were spectroscopes--meter-long glass-and-metal optical devices that used infrared light.
The only instruments capable of measuring such vibrations, though, were spectroscopes--4-foot-long glass-and-metal optical devices that used infrared light.
Its "nose" is a 2-inch-long glass cylinder coated on the inside with a concoction of glowing chemicals like those found in the belly of a lightning bug.
Features include a 14, 000 log cabin, 82 ft long pool and glass lodge with retractable roof.
She studied her foggy reflection in the long, narrow glass window in the lift door and with nervous hands tucked away stray hairs.
Photographs are so easy to take and so ubiquitous that we're neglecting the craft of capturing images. (Before long, Google Glass, the high-tech glasses with a built-in camera, will let us take a photo of whatever we happen to be looking at.) While technology has imbued the minutia of our experience with meaning, it's also turning us into lazy photographers.
It wasn't just self-congratulatory laughter at a high-brow joke. (OK, maybe a little.) I also had a laugh at myself: I've tried for so long to understand Philip Glass, and all it took was a one-act parody?
While less efficient at converting sunlight into electricity than conventional photovoltaic cells, the promise of thin-film solar was that it could be manufactured much cheaper as cells are printed on glass or long rolls of thin metal.
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Investors have cooled to gas stocks as rising supplies have driven prices down, but Glass takes the long view.
There are big glass doors, long tables with Microsoft products people can try out, helpful store employees with bright T-shirts and lanyards, walls of accessories and scattered software.
In the former colliery villages of northern England, long retired miners still raise a glass to Maggie, as she is affectionately known.
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Stare long enough at the stained-glass windows in the main room, and the siblings' features become apparent in two of the monks' faces.
This is important because it was exposure to loans and mortgages that got traditional banks into trouble, and their exposure to them long predated the partial abolishment of Glass-Steagall.
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That we could make the quality of glass fiber necessary to transmit long-distance signals.
And investors may look to ideas like Google Glass as positives signposts for long-term investing.
The Glass Hall, 200 meters long and 60 meters tall, tends to overwhelm the individual, he complains.
Not long after their Met triumph, Mr Glass went back to cab-driving in New York, struggling to make ends meet.
Now the near-infinite capacity of these glass tendrils is spreading from long-distance networks to local nets and, one day, to corporate desktops and your living room.
Called, rather long-windedly, the Museum of Glass and International Centre for Contemporary Art , it doesn't yet compete with the Corning Museum of Glass in New York state.
The glass was gone and the pews long since burned for firewood.
Rising numbers of urban workers and the insidious spread of Anglo-Saxon fast-food habits are working against the old traditions of a glass with breakfast followed by a long lunch fuelled by a bottle or two.
Six kilometres east of Ventimiglia, the seaside resort town of Bordighera, also easily reachable by bus or train, has a smattering of trendy cafes and organic produce markets, a long ocean promenade lined with beach bars and glass-walled restaurants, plus a wide shoreline for sunbathing and swimming.
The words were there somewhere, behind blurred window glass, in dark corners, as long as he could remember what he was searching for.
There are also the moments at the end of a long week (with music turned up and a glass of wine at hand) of happily making flower arrangements for the entire house.
Detective Superintendent Brian Dunn said he wanted people to end the long-standing "wall of silence" surrounding Ms Glass's disappearance.
An old woman was cleaning cobwebs and birds' nests out of the high-up stained-glass nooks with a 5-meter-long branch of bamboo.
On the glass half-empty side, underemployment and long-term unemployment remain problems.
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The costume galleries have long suffered from cramped quarters and often lifeless installations behind glass panes, which make the garments look more like clothes in a shop window than works of art.
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If they lose themselves in the long climb up the ladder and the ruthless shattering of glass ceilings, forsaking their families in the pursuit of position and status, they will have to deal with the fallout of that too.
Hibs' small squad was stretched to its limits by long-term injuries to Ian Murray, Grant Brebner, Glass and Yannick Zambernardi.
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