With remarkable economy of material, it protects very fragile items".
Put fragile items up high or away in boxes.
Motivating examples include the design of packaging for transportation of fragile items.
These fragile items required special handling and archival containers with padding.
Yet precisely when, where, why and by whom most of these fragile items were produced is something of a mystery.
The most valuable and fragile items have been placed in the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts in Firestone Library.
But two fragile items have been digitally recreated to allow museum visitors to experience them as the artist intended: by handling them.
Mode(s) of Introduction: In the early 1900's grasses were used as a cheap, light-weight packing material for fragile items.
Even today, though, the overwhelming majority of library usage is from printed books for which digital substitutes can be used, and for which a digital display is preferable to the alternative of microfilm for fragile items.
While drones have already been mooted as one way to deliver goods, such as Amazon's Air Prime drones, Amukele said that biological samples "are not like a shoe or a book, they are pretty fragile items".
At the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, many of the 37 buildings on the museum grounds display such valuable and fragile items as antique clocks, dolls, quilts and samplers -- to say nothing of works by Degas, Monet, Manet and Cassatt.
