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The earliest glass item from the Indus Valley civilization is a brown glass bead found at Harappa, dating to 1700 BCE. This makes it the earliest evidence of glass in South Asia. [3] [25] Glass discovered from later sites dating from 600 to 300 BCE displays common colors. [3]
Although glass was made at Jamestown, production was soon suspended because of strife in the colony. A second attempt at Jamestown also failed. Later attempts to produce glass were made during the 1600s; glass works in New Amsterdam and the Colony of Massachusetts Bay had some success. In the 17th century, at least two New Amsterdam glass ...
Other attempts to produce glass were made during the 1600s and 1700s, and a few had some success. Glass works in New Amsterdam and New York City, the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, Philadelphia, and the province of New Jersey's Glassboro are often mentioned by historians. Much of the evidence concerning the 17th century New Amsterdam glass ...
A formative failure. But it hasn’t all been smooth sailing for the 6-foot-7, 65-year-old Corning CEO. In the 1990s, Weeks was the Corning vice president tapped to run a new optical fiber ...
Nine of those factories made flint glass (crystal). The remaining factories made products such as bottles and window glass. [62] [Note 4] The best known Pittsburgh glass company was Bakewell, Pears and Company. The company was known for its crystal, including cut and engraved glassware. It also made window glass, bottles, and lamps. [64]
The study found that the room temperature viscosity of this glass was roughly 10 24 Pa·s which is about 10 16 times less viscous than a previous estimate made in 1998, which focused on soda-lime silicate glass.
Mechanical pressing of glass reduced the time and labor necessary to make glass products, which lowered costs and made glass products available to more of the public. [32] An 1884 U.S. government report considered mechanical pressing and a new formula for glass to be the two great advances in American glassmaking during the 19th century. [25]
North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company Building: May 15, 1975 : Durham: Durham: 1921 commercial building; second headquarters of a major black-owned insurance company. 27: NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA