glass-tumblers

Updated: July 1, 2025

Not the big one which he had just perfected that one was at home under the window in the old shop, in the back yard in Kennedy Square but a smaller working model made of pine wood, with glass-tumblers for jars and imitation magnets wrapped round with thread instead of wire the whole unintelligible to the layman, but perfectly clear to the scientist.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Fortunes of Oliver Horn