THE VIDEO SHELF · glass making
Glass engineering - designing and making photochromic glass
Ben Krasnow of Applied Science shows how to make small batches of specialty glass with minimal equipment, including designing and making photochromic glass. He covers ingredients, melting and the challenges involved.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a hands-on introduction to glass melting and chemistry and to Krasnow's channel.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Applied Science
- Topic
- glass making
- Format
- tutorial
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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The awesome youtube channel Applied Science put out a 40 minute intro video to melting your own glass a week or two ago, going into the equipment, chemistry and recipies: [VIDEO] In particular, he talks about making your own photochromic glass that changes color in …
mycelium on Hacker News · 2017-12
In You Can Learn Glass Blowing (1938)This was really interesting -- not a process I've ever realy thought about. You might enjoy this, Ben Krasnow talking about the challenges of making photochromic glass: [VIDEO]
tomn on Hacker News · 2018-04
In An in-depth tour of Nikon’s Hikari Glass factory
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