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Before the development of high-speed moving image media, or fiberglass, naturalists and educators faced a quandary: it was often impossible to demonstrate exactly what an invertebrate looked like without a live specimen, because the spine collapses and color leaches out of one preserved in alcohol.
![From the 1908 Ornamental Glass Bulletin: "Odd Uses of Glass"](http://d3seu6qyu1a8jw.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/3_column_square/public/images/glass_oddities_article_250w%281%29.gif?itok=yfRQs5Fh "From the 1908 Ornamental Glass Bulletin: "Odd Uses of Glass"")
"It was only a few months ago that plans were drawn for a house to be built of compressed opalescent glass bricks to be erected at Beechhurst; L.I. The house will be built, as regards material, very similar to some small one and two story office buildings which have been erected in Des Moines,
The story of the Blaschkas begins in the small town of Böhmisch Aicha (now Cˇesky´ Dub in the Czech Republic), where Leopold’s father continued the family tradition of flameworking. When Leopold was a student, his favorite subjects were natural history and painting, and a visiting artist urged him
