Ultra Think Glass: How it’s made

To make ultra thin glass workers use lime, sand, soda, and potash. These grains are put into a cart that transfers everything into a mixer that blends everything together. While its mixing bits of broken glass are added to recycle it. Once it’s been mixed, the powder is transferred to a funnel shaped container. The funnel pours the mixture into a feeder mechanism that slowly pushes the powder into a 2732º furnace. The glass turns to the consistency of honey and comes out a slit that makes the glass so thin. Ultra thin glass is thinner than a hair and doesn’t crack. Then it is inspected by tiny laser cameras that look for glitches like bubbles. than the glass is cut to be able to be screens for smartphones, watches, and ipads. Then it is inspected once more to look for scratches by a lab technician.

Designing the flashlight

After watching the video, Mr. Calvert said that we would pretend to be the designers helping the divers by making waterproof flashlights. We had to make everything perfectly drawn to scale, to do this we used a t-square. We had to draw the wires but they had to be squiggly because they had to be able to be pulled taught.