The History and Importance of Glass | How to Make Everything: Eyeglasses

Before moving on to making a microscope and telescope, I asked Lewis Dartnell to help explains some of the history and importance of glass and why it's such a unique material.

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Today, getting what you need is as easy as a trip to the store. From food to clothing, energy, medicine, and so much more, Andy George will discover what it takes to make everything from scratch. His mission is to understand the complex processes of manufacturing that is often taken for granted and do it all himself. Each week he’s traveling the world to bypass the modern supply chain in order to harvest raw materials straight from the source. Along the way, he’s answering the questions you never thought to ask.

Music by the talented Taylor Lewin

[nfinone]

This was hugely excellent. Not only to make a pair of glasses, but the evolution of knowledge of the creation of the thing. Science channel, etc... I would patreon this channel.

[bobbybader]

I'm not much of a reader, but this book seems extremely interesting. After watching this video I went straight to Amazon and bought it. Can not wait to read it!

[esa]

We rarely think how huge thing glass has been. In fact, probably one of the biggest reasons why more advanced China fell behind Mediterranean countries in technology is, that they perfected ceramic cups and didn't have the need to get into glass until much later, whereas in Europe glass led to those scientific and technical breakthroughs you described. Discovering Jupiter's moons was probably the biggest thing that broke European science away from the dominating church, by clearly demonstrating that the church didn't know the true nature of the Universe.

[mynameismatt]

The last time you mentioned this book on the series I bought it on amazon straight away. It's great.

[Brutananadilewski]

There are few videos of making concrete on youtube. I would like to see your take on small scale concrete production.

[edwardkasimir]

This reminds me of the glasses that I bought through Civil Eyewear. So good and affordable.

[bearocket]

Great video, im definetly going to read the book myself. It's really interesting and I like it alot that you show us how to do stuff from scratch! Great work, keep it up!

[edwinohd]

Damnit. I was FINE with my subscriptions and now I have to subscribe here because I found this channel. Oh well.

[KnowArt]

I always question myself how many people you would need to keep a society like we have running. With internet and smartphones etc.

[Darkside]

Do you think it is possible to make a series on how to make a wireless connection?

[sraldleif]

I don't know why I just sat through an advert for a book I'm already reading

[ArnasKiskys]

Ayyyy, 200k almost, great to see its finally growing again!

[provokingperch]

These animations are great. Nice work.

[xddailydoseofdopamine]

this needs to be at least 10th in trending!

[JuggaloJD]

so this is a sponsored ad for a book? (and reused footage from the glasses video)

[KeatonIsFTW]

You should totally go panning for gold and mine some gems make some tiny jewelry my man

[Johnrich]

You've had a lot of issues with the glass, maybe it's from the manipulations. What about doing float glass, maybe that would allow the bubbles to work out?

[EppingForest]

Making lenses for eye optics is fascinating... amazed how cheap modern prescription optics are, compared to the price of the frames!

[PanikGrafik]

I don't like sand... It's coarse, rough and gets everywhere.

[shubhingh]

Galelio did not invented telescope from scratch, he improved someone else's design