Sentence examples for strands of glass from inspiring English sources

Another concept, developed elsewhere, was to direct the beams by creating incredibly pure strands of glass fiber.

Optical fibers are hair-thin strands of glass that carry conversations and computer data on beams of laser light.

The closely held Photonic, based in Sydney, Australia, makes devices used to manipulate and control light as it travels on hair-thin strands of glass.

The pots are nice enough; but the show is stolen by a ravishing clutch of homely crystal vases made by coiling thick strands of glass into cylindrical forms.

With his other hand he uses what looks like an enormous set of iron tweezers (known as a jack) to draw out strands of glass.

The designers may use stainless-steel cladding, reinforced glass or even translucent concrete, a new material embedded with strands of glass that transmits light and shadow through seemingly impervious walls.

A strand of glass, thinner than a human hair, yet wide enough to carry more information than three million copper wires, the technology it replaced.

If a savvy technological analyst were to hail the spread of optical fiber, which allows the passage of more information in a single strand of glass in a month than currently swamps the whole Internet in a year; or to recommend some pioneering companies along the way -- well, all that would be eminently sufficient.

A single strand of glass can provide almost any amount of bandwidth at very little additional cost.

Ciena was the first company to market a device that can cram 40 billion bits per second through a single strand of glass fiber.

If you could plug a strand of glass into the far side of the box, you could race the dealer's virtual minivan on a Nascar track against Richard Petty.