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The World of Glass is a local museum and visitor centre in St Helens, Merseyside, England. The museum is dedicated to the local history of the town and borough primarily through the lens of the glass industry but also looking at other local industries.
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Glass has three major components: a network former (silica), a network modifier (), and a network stabilizer (predominantly lime). [7] [8] In the early 16th and 17th centuries glassmaking (the manufacture of glass from raw materials) and glassworking (the creation of objects from glass) occurred within the same glasshouse. [9]
The company in partnership with the Ministry of Munitions' Optical Munitions and Glass Department expanded significantly during World War I [10] [11]. In the early 20th century, many new ways of making glass evolved at Chance Brothers such as the innovative welding of a cathode-ray tube used for radar detection.
The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. The exhibition took place from 1 May to 15 October 1851, and more than 14,000 exhibitors from around the world gathered in its 990,000-square-foot (92,000 m 2) exhibition space to display examples of technology developed in the Industrial Revolution.
Pilkington aggressively protected its patents and trade secrets through a network of licensing agreements with glass manufacturers around the world. The modern "float" technique (pouring the molten glass on a layer of very pure molten tin) became commercially widespread when Alastair Pilkington developed a practical version, patented in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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