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  2. Float glass - Wikipedia

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    Before the development of float glass, larger sheets of plate glass were made by casting a large puddle of glass on an iron surface, and then polishing both sides, a costly process. From the early 1920s, a continuous ribbon of plate glass was passed through a lengthy series of inline grinders and polishers, reducing glass losses and cost. [13]

  3. Polished plate glass - Wikipedia

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    Mirror plates prior to the invention had been made from blown "sheet" glass, and were consequently very limited in size. De Nehou's process of rolling molten glass poured on an iron table rendered the manufacture of very large plates possible. [2] In 1773 English polished plate (by the French process) was produced at Ravenhead. By 1800 a steam ...

  4. Vitreography - Wikipedia

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    Everts is credited with coining the term “vitreography” to describe printmaking from glass plates. [31] Another early group exhibition took place in 1988 at the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg in Coburg, Germany. Titled "Prints from Glass Plates – Vitreographs," the show featured works by Americans and two Germans: Erwin Eisch and Ann Wolff.

  5. Glass knife - Wikipedia

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    A glass knife is a knife with a blade made of glass, with a fracture line forming an extremely sharp cutting edge. Glass knives were used in antiquity due to their natural sharpness and the ease with which they could be manufactured. In modern electron microscopy glass knives are used to make the ultrathin sections needed for imaging.

  6. Glass cutter - Wikipedia

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    Glass cutter, showing hardened steel cutting wheel (far left), notches for snapping, and ball (on end of handle) for tapping. A glass cutter is a tool used to make a shallow score in one surface of a piece of glass (normally a flat one) that is to be broken in two pieces, for example to fit a window.

  7. Sharpening stone - Wikipedia

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    Diamond plates can serve many purposes including sharpening steel tools, and for maintaining the flatness of man-made waterstones, which can become grooved or hollowed in use. Truing (flattening a stone whose shape has been changed as it wears away) is widely considered essential to the sharpening process but some hand sharpening techniques ...

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