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A glass melting furnace is designed to melt raw materials into glass. [1] Depending on the intended use, there are various designs of glass melting furnaces available. [2] [3] [4] They use different power sources. These sources are mainly fossil fueled or by fully electric power. A combination of both energy sources is also realized. A glass ...
In July 2007, a documentary, Boogie with Canned Heat: The Canned Heat Story, was released, as was a biography of Wilson, Blind Owl Blues, by author Rebecca Davis Winters. By 2000, Robert Lucas had departed and the lineup was completed by Dallas Hodge (vocals, guitar), [40] John Paulus (guitar) and Stanley "Baron" Behrens (harmonica, saxophone ...
Canned Heat is an American blues rock band founded by Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson and Bob "The Bear" Hite in 1965. The band's classic line-up consisted of Wilson on slide guitar, vocals and harmonica, Hite on vocals and harmonica, Henry "The Sunflower" Vestine on lead guitar, Larry "The Mole" Taylor on bass and Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra on drums.
The furnaces are natural gas- or fuel oil-fired, and operate at temperatures up to 1,575 °C (2,867 °F). [3] The temperature is limited only by the quality of the furnace’s superstructure material and by the glass composition. Types of furnaces used in container glass making include "end-port" (end-fired), "side-port", and "oxy-fuel".
Henry Charles Vestine (December 25, 1944 – October 20, 1997) [1] a.k.a. "The Sunflower", was an American guitar player primarily known as a member of the band Canned Heat. ...
Frank Lenord Clayman Cook (January 6, 1942 – July 9, 2021) was an American drummer and member of blues bands Canned Heat, Pacific Gas & Electric and Bluesberry Jam. For a time he was also the manager of Pacific Gas & Electric.
Canned Heat, who were early blues enthusiasts, based "Going Up the Country" on "Bull Doze Blues", recorded in 1928 by Texas bluesman Henry Thomas. [5] Thomas was from the songster tradition and had a unique sound, [6] sometimes accompanying himself on quills, an early Afro-American wind instrument similar to panpipes.
Labino's glassblowing workshop in 1968, with his chair and marvering board, annealing kiln (left), and glass furnaces (right). The first glass batch did not melt properly, and the stoneware crucible that Littleton had made to hold the molten glass in the furnace broke apart in the intense heat. Labino suggested that they melt the glass directly ...