support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The history of glass-making dates back to at least 3,600 years ago in Mesopotamia. However...
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Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Although traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations of modern...
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Flexible glass is an alleged lost invention from the time of the reign of Tiberius Caesar. The story is assumed to be almost certainly false. According...
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Some common objects made of glass like "a glass" of water, "glasses", and "magnifying glass", are named after the material. Glass is most often formed by...
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other containers. It has been done in a variety of ways during the history of glass. Broadly, modern glass container factories are three-part operations:...
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Carnival glass Elegant glass Fiesta (dinnerware) Goofus glass Hazel-Atlas Glass Company Milk glass Pressed glass Satin glass Uranium glass Uranium tile...
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including the legislative history of the provisions covered. As with the Glass–Steagall Act of 1932, the common name comes from the names of the Congressional...
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Float glass is a sheet of glass made by floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal of a low melting point, typically tin, although lead was used for...
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The Corning Museum of Glass is a museum in Corning, New York in the United States, dedicated to the art, history, and science of glass. It was founded in...
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the delusion in 17th century Europe to the novelty of glass material, stating that "throughout history, the inventive unconscious mind has pegged its delusions...
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The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, glass harmonium, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica or harmonica (derived from...
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local tradition of manufacturing glass costume jewellery. Its long history is documented by large collections in the Museum of Glass and Jewellery in...
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art glass, but it has a long history of innovations in glassmaking in addition to its artistic fame—and was Europe's major center for luxury glass from...
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Shankar (2018-01-19). चीन में कांच का पुल history of glass bridge in china [Glass pull in China history of glass bridge in China]. Cool Thoughts (in Hindi)...
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The Murano Glass Museum (Italian: Museo del Vetro) is a museum on the history of glass, including local Murano glass, located on the island of Murano, just...
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Borosilicate glass is a type of glass with silica and boron trioxide as the main glass-forming constituents. Borosilicate glasses are known for having...
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Timothy C.; Kriss, Vesna Martich (April 1998), "History of the Operating Microscope: From Magnifying Glass to Microneurosurgery", Neurosurgery, 42 (4): 899–907...
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stained glass is the coloured and painted glass of medieval Europe from the 10th century to the 16th century. For much of this period stained glass windows...
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www.cmog.org. Retrieved 2017-05-23. "A History of Glass Bottle and Glass Jar Manufacturing Glass Bottles and Glass Jars". www.ebottles.com. Retrieved 2017-05-23...
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used primarily for the production of vessels, although mosaic tiles and window glass were also produced. Roman glass production developed from Hellenistic...
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Glassblowing (redirect from Glass blowing)
involves inflating molten glass into a bubble (or parison) with the aid of a blowpipe (or blow tube). A person who blows glass is called a glassblower,...
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external walls. Glass is also used for internal partitions and as an architectural feature. When used in buildings, glass is often of a safety type, which...
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of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants (or simply the Glass Flowers) is a collection of highly realistic glass botanical models at the Harvard Museum of Natural...
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factories, and glass art, covering the whole range of glass with artistic interest made throughout history. Both art glass and studio glass originate in...
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Crown glass was an early type of window glass. In this process, glass was blown into a "crown" or hollow globe. This was then transferred from the blowpipe...
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Hugh Glass (c. 1783 – 1833) was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, trader, hunter and explorer. He is best known for his story of survival and forgiveness...
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Cut glass or cut-glass is a technique and a style of decorating glass. For some time the style has often been produced by other techniques such as the...
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of the glass. A concave lens of flint glass is commonly combined with a convex lens of crown glass to produce an achromatic doublet lens because of their...
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Ancient Chinese glass refers to all types of glass manufactured in China prior to the Qing dynasty (1644–1911). In Chinese history, glass played a peripheral...
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Glass fiber (or glass fibre) is a material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass. Glassmakers throughout history have experimented with...
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