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2. Art marble - Wikipedia

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   Dichroic glass is a very popular choice with glass artists today, especially so when creating marbles, because of its properties of having more than one color and when viewed from different angles, has a sparkle effect, much like a cut gemstone. Dichroic glass is actually a product created by the space industry, and was first used as an ...

3. Josh Simpson (glass artist) - Wikipedia

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   Josh Simpson (born August 17, 1949 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American glass artist.His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries around the world, and is held in the collections of museums such as the Corning Museum of Glass; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Renwick Gallery.

4. Marble (toy) - Wikipedia

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   The first mass-produced toy marbles (clay) made in the US were made in Akron, Ohio, by S. C. Dyke, in the early 1890s. Some of the first US-produced glass marbles were also made in Akron by James Harvey Leighton. In 1903, Martin Frederick Christensen—also of Akron—made the first machine-made glass marbles on his patented machine. His ...

5. Uranium glass - Wikipedia

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   Uranium glass is used as one of several intermediate glasses in what is known to scientific glass blowers as a 'graded seal'. This is typically used in glass-to-metal seals such as tungsten and molybdenum or nickel based alloys such as Kovar, as an intermediary glass between the metal sealing glass and lower expansion borosilicate glass.

6. Pigmented structural glass - Wikipedia

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   The last two American manufacturers ceased production about 1960: Libbey-Owens-Ford shut down its pigmented structural glass plant in 1958, followed by Pittsburgh Plate Glass in the early 1960s. [ 4 ] [ 18 ] [ e ] Production continued in the United Kingdom until 1968, and in Bavaria , Germany , until the end of the 20th century.

7. Charles Townley - Wikipedia

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   He travelled on three Grand Tours to Italy, buying antique sculpture, vases, coins, manuscripts and Old Master drawings and paintings. Many of the most important pieces from his collection, especially the Townley Marbles (or Towneley Marbles ) are now in the British Museum's Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities.