stop by and see this exhibit. it looks wicked cool
These creatures see dusty duty:
Obscure cousins of the Glass Flowers depict denizens of the deep
By Alvin Powell
Staff photos by Jon Chase
The man-of-war's blue sail shone under the display case's bright lights, the glass tentacles of the jellyfishlike animal so delicate that the tread of a visitor to the Museum of Comparative Zoology's Invertebrate Department sets them waving.
Where its live counterparts - poisonous colonies of creatures called siphonophores - drift in a salty sea, the glass model is sailing in a sea of time, bringing ancient craftsmanship to the present.
The man-of-war is just one of about 360 glass animals housed at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. They were created in the late 1800s by the father and son team of Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, creators of the Harvard Botanical Museum's famous Glass Flowers. ...........
Where its live counterparts - poisonous colonies of creatures called siphonophores - drift in a salty sea, the glass model is sailing in a sea of time, bringing ancient craftsmanship to the present.
The man-of-war is just one of about 360 glass animals housed at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. They were created in the late 1800s by the father and son team of Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, creators of the Harvard Botanical Museum's famous Glass Flowers. ...........
By Melissa Trujillo
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—An aquarium of a different sort is on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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Sure there are small sea slugs, prickly sea cucumbers, a floating jellyfish and an octopus -- tentacles curled around his red and yellow body.
But these creatures aren't just behind glass -- they are glass.
The creatures were created more than a century ago by a father and son who made incredibly accurate models in a time before scientists had the Internet, video or even color photography to aid their research.
"It's incredible," said Chris Roberts, a graduate engineering student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as he walked through the displays. "I don't know how they could have had that control with melted glass."
The "Sea Creatures in Glass" exhibit is the first time the museum has displayed part of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology's collection of more than 400 animals made in the mid-1800s by German artists Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka. But for years, the natural history museum has shown an even larger collection of their work, the thousands of models of glass flowers Harvard commissioned.........
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Sure there are small sea slugs, prickly sea cucumbers, a floating jellyfish and an octopus -- tentacles curled around his red and yellow body.
But these creatures aren't just behind glass -- they are glass.
The creatures were created more than a century ago by a father and son who made incredibly accurate models in a time before scientists had the Internet, video or even color photography to aid their research.
"It's incredible," said Chris Roberts, a graduate engineering student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as he walked through the displays. "I don't know how they could have had that control with melted glass."
The "Sea Creatures in Glass" exhibit is the first time the museum has displayed part of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology's collection of more than 400 animals made in the mid-1800s by German artists Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka. But for years, the natural history museum has shown an even larger collection of their work, the thousands of models of glass flowers Harvard commissioned.........
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