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The Joy of Ant Farms for Over a Century
Ant farms are one of the most popular educational ?toys? on the market today. And there?s no doubt that kids can learn an awful lot about ants, social insects, group behaviour, and all sorts of other interactions by watching ants going about their business. But how did it all start?
It's not easy to say but people seem to have begun building ant farms in the mid nineteenth century. Until the mid 1800?s, glass had been a fairly expensive commodity and certainly not something one would ?waste? on a child?s toy. Until the development of the float glass process, most window glass had been produced by the cylinder method, invented by Sir Henry Bessemer in 1848. Nolten glass was formed into big cylinders which were slit open to make a flat (or flattish) sheet; no wonder it was expensive.
We don't have a name for the first person to layer some sand between sheets of glass to make an Ant Habitat but it was probably one of the gentleman naturalists of the Victorian period. These were of the sons of wealthy industrialist, who didn't want to follow their father's footsteps and would often spend their days studying nature or exploring. We have a lot to thank them for, as the undoubtedly contributed much to our understanding of nature. The first ant farms were call formicaries and were typically beautiful examples of Victorian workmanship. They were used for study in universities and museums.
It wasn?t until the late 1950?s, when Sir Alastair Pilkington developed the float glass process, which involved floating molten glass on a layer of molten tin, that perfectly flat glass became widely and cheaply available. This made it possible for kids and adults alike to build ant farms simply and easily with waste glass.
Simultaneously, a toy company based in Hollywood of all places, Uncle Milton Industries, began to market plastic ant habitats with great success. They gave the toy the name of 'Ant Farm' and protected the name by registering it. Now, 50 years later, the ant farm has evolved into dozens of different models, of all shapes and sizes. Even NASA has got in on the act by developing an ant farm where the burrowing medium is not sand but a transparent nutrient gel. These are now widely available too. From the early formicaria of the gentleman naturalists to the space-age gel versions of today, the ant farm is as popular now as it ever was and the amazing activities of ants still hold us in thrall just as they did all those years ago.
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