The Spontaneous Glass Eye Shattering #darkhistory #horror #storytime

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[00:00:00]In the late 19th century, losing an eye was a tragedy, and the glass replacement exploding in your skull, it was a high probability. The Victorians didn't have modern medical grade materials. Instead, they had hollow, hand-blown glass. It was aesthetically flawless, but it contained an engineering flaw. The quick heating and cooling of the glass blowing entrapped a microscopic vacuum of air inside the center of the sphere. It was a pressurized bomb. Medical journals from the 1880s began documenting a terrifying irregularity. A patient would walk into a warm room from the freezing outside weather. The sudden thermal shock would cause the trapped vacuum [music] to expand. That's all the glass eye needed to detonate. Patients reported hearing a sound like a snapping branch inside their own skulls. The glass sphere would spontaneously explode directly inside the victim's eye socket, driving microscopic glass shrapnel into the optic nerves and the brain cavity.

[00:00:52]The prosthetic it didn't heal the wound.

[00:00:54]It just waited for the right temperature to reopen it.