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Basic Optical Stress Measurement in Glass
During the manufacture of all glass products, both temporary and residual stresses develop. Such stresses arise as a consequence of the manufacturing processes and for proper process control to be exercised it is necessary to be able to quantify thes...
The Glasshouse
When John Ruskin disparaged the Crystal Palace as 'a great cucumber frame', he hit upon a truism. Representing the zenith of Victorian glasshouses, the Crystal Palace epitomized a building type that had been developed by horticulturists and garden ...
Christian Herdeg (neon)
Raw Materials for Glass Melting
This handbook serves as a practical guide on raw materials used in glass melting to those concerned with batch handling, glass melting, glass compositions, purchase of raw materials, etc.
Faszination Glas.
Frau Regine Balmer, Lektorin vom Paul Haupt Verlag Bern, hat in der Ausgabe 2/1994 der Zeitschrift des Schweizer Heimatwerks die Reportage ´Eine Erfolgsgeschichte aus ganz besonderem Glas´gelesen.
Contemporary Warm Glass
Sottsass. Glass Works
Ettore Sottsass, one of the most famous of Italian designers, has experimented many times with glass as a production material, Sottsass' work with glass began fifty years ago, when he cooperated with some of the most important and well-known of the ...
Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a word from the Zulu and Xhosa languages and means so much as “I am because we are”
Mieke Groot
The window Glass makers of St. Helens
This is a record of window glass making by the Company of Pilkington Brothers, at Grove Street, St. Helens from 1826 to 1952. It is wholly about the sheet and rolled glass making factory known as Sheet Works, located in St. Helens at Grove Street onl...
Ceramics and Glass: a Basic Technology
At first sight the two crafts of producing pottery and making articles in glass seem to be completely separate, however, they have a great deal in common. One process involves the cold working of a plastic material which becomes permanently hardened ...
