After working as a glazer and glass-restorer, he had turned to glass-painting and designing, gradually obtaining commissions in churches all over Britain.
The design is to have reflective glass steps on two sides. It will be built a few kilometers south of the Tour Montparnasse, a 210-meter tall structure.
To make something so bulky actually wearable, the designers started with a flexible undersuit and covered it with a harness, to which they attached a fiberglass exoskeleton.
Those wafers are mounted onto glass slides, ground even thinner, until it's thin enough for light to transmit through and for us to see the structure underneath the microscope.
At British Telecom's research laboratories near Ipswich, England, engineers are evaluating how a tiny screen fitted to the side-frame of a pair of ordinary glass can be linked to the human eye.