Glass
Subtitle: From Cinderella's Slippers to Fiber Optics
Publisher: 21st Century
Published: February 6, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780761321095
Subjects: Science & Nature - Earth Sciences; Juvenile literature; Glass; Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); Science & Nature - General; Material Science; Non-Classifiable; History - Other; Children's 12-Up - Technology
First sentence: A long time ago, so the ancient story goes, sailors pulled their boats up on the sandy shores of a river that flowed into the Mediterranean Sea in what is today Syria.