When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: ocean glass balls

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Glass float - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_float

    A Japanese glass fishing float. Glass floats were used by fishermen in many parts of the world to keep their fishing nets, as well as longlines or droplines, afloat.. Large groups of fishnets strung together, sometimes 50 miles (80 km) long, were set adrift in the ocean and supported near the surface by hollow glass balls or cylinders containing air to give them buoyancy.

  3. Sea glass - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_glass

    Purple sea glass is very uncommon, as is citron, opaque white (from milk bottles), cobalt blue and cornflower blue (from early milk of magnesia bottles, poison bottles, artwork, Bromo-Seltzer and Vicks VapoRub containers), and aqua (from Ball Mason jars and certain 19th century glass bottles). These colors are found once for every 200 to 1,000 ...

  4. Crystal ball - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_ball

    A crystal ball is a crystal or glass ball commonly used in fortune-telling. It is generally associated with the performance of clairvoyance and scrying. Used since Antiquity, crystal balls have had a broad reputation with witchcraft, including modern times with charlatan acts and amusements at circus venues, festivals, etc.

  5. Stone spheres of Costa Rica - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_spheres_of_Costa_Rica

    In the cosmogony of the Bribri, which is shared by the Cabecares and other American ancestral groups, the stone spheres are "Tara's cannon balls". Tara or Tlatchque, the god of thunder, used a giant blowpipe to shoot the balls at the Serkes, gods of winds and hurricanes, in order to drive them out of these lands.

  6. Bathysphere - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathysphere

    The Bathysphere on display at the National Geographic museum in 2009. The Bathysphere (from Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathús) 'deep' and σφαῖρα (sphaîra) 'sphere') was a unique spherical deep-sea submersible which was unpowered and lowered into the ocean on a cable, and was used to conduct a series of dives off the coast of Bermuda from 1930 to 1934.

  7. Marimo - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marimo

    Marimo were first described in the 1820s by Anton E. Sauter, found in Lake Zell, Austria.The genus Aegagropila was established by Friedrich T. Kützing (1843) with A. linnaei as the type species based on its formation of spherical aggregations, but all the Aegagropila species were transferred to subgenus Aegagropila of the genus Cladophora later by the same author (Kützing 1849).