In fact, observatories continued to generate
images on glass plates until about 20 to 25 years ago, according to Michael Shara, a curator in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Urbasi Sinha of the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, and colleagues managed to do it by carving into a metal
coating on a glass plate to make three equally spaced slits 30 micrometres wide and 100 micrometres apart.
A tiny
speck on a glass plate photograph taken through a telescope in 1923 increased the known size of the universe exponentially.
As Randy said when he first showed microscopes to the Kofán, nothing in the dazzling array of organisms
displayed on the glass plate astonished them, because they already knew that multiple levels of reality existed.
To find out, Xu and his adviser Sidney Nagel along with colleague Wendy Zhang used high - speed photography to study the splash of ethanol drops as they
landed on a glass plate inside a vacuum chamber.
SHINING STARS In the late 1890s, Harvard observatory hired women as «computers» to document data
captured on glass plate images of the night sky.
The new taillights With feature wafer - thin layers of organic materials that are
printed on a glass plate and made to illuminate.
Experiments with thermo -
enameling on glass plates and etched vinyl records are also shown, as well as works not typically associated with printmaking techniques, such as hand - stitched shirts, silver gelatin prints and Polaroids.
Negatives on glass plates documenting the activities of La Biennale until the 1970s, from the»50s onwards, films are preserved.
Viewers are invited to create their own «paintings» by selecting and placing assorted laminated
pouches on the glass plate surface of the projector.
To grill bacon: I place bacon strips on a paper plate,
set on a glass plate, and cover with another paper plate and render out the fat for 3 minutes in the microwave.Then take the strips of bacon and place them on a grill that has been preheated to high.
An optical fingerprint scanner works when the finger is
placed on a glass plate, or in a smartphone's case, on the glass display.