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Glass remained a luxury material, and the disasters that overtook Late Bronze Age civilizations seemed to have brought glass-making to a halt. [citation needed] [15] It picked up again in its former sites, Syria and Cyprus, in the 9th century BCE, when the techniques for making colorless glass were discovered. [citation needed]
Ravenscroft did not "invent" lead crystal glass, as others had already discovered the advantages of adding lead oxide to glass, [2] [4] but he did improve the process. [2] More than a dozen of Ravenscroft's pieces are known to exist (see table below), and the "robust simplicity" [4] of his designs is still admired.
Glass was not pressed in the United States until the 1820s. [8] Until the 20th century, window glass production involved blowing a cylinder and flattening it. [9] Two major methods to make window glass, the crown method and the cylinder method, were used until the process was changed much later in the 1920s. [10]
Glass can be coloured by adding metal salts or painted and printed with vitreous enamels, leading to its use in stained glass windows and other glass art objects. The refractive, reflective and transmission properties of glass make glass suitable for manufacturing optical lenses, prisms, and optoelectronics materials.
Glass company financiers discovered that if a skilled glass worker left their company, glassmaking knowledge left with them. [17] Boston businessman Deming Jarves, who has been called the "father of the American glass industry", joined the industry in 1809 as an investor. [18] Jarves began to keep a book of glass recipes.
3-D printing is revolutionizing manufacturing, allowing anyone to make their own designs come to life and impressing us with incredible achievements.
Friedrich Otto Schott (1851–1935) was a German chemist, glass technologist, and the inventor of borosilicate glass.Schott systematically investigated the relationship between the chemical composition of the glass and its properties.
Glass Gem corn, a unique variety of rainbow-colored corn, became an Internet sensation in 2012 when a photo of the sparkling cob was posted to Facebook. Shortly after, the company that sells the ...