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Pinshane Yeh Huang is an Associate Professor of Materials Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She develops transmission electron microscopy to investigate two-dimensional materials. During her PhD she discovered the thinnest piece of glass in the world, which was included in the Guinness World Records.
Glassmaking began shortly after the first glassworkers arrived, with the supply ship carrying sample glassware on its return voyage. [22] In the spring of 1609, a "tryall of glasse" was produced. [33] It is believed that production of glass ended during the difficult winter of 1609–1610, a period known as the Starving Time. [33]
Evidence of glass during the chalcolithic has been found in Hastinapur, India. [19] The earliest glass item from the Indus Valley civilization is a brown glass bead found at Harappa, dating to 1700 BCE. This makes it the earliest evidence of glass in South Asia. [3] [20] Glass discovered from later sites dating from 600 to 300 BCE displays ...
Place Names of Illinois. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252033568. Ehrensperger, E.C. (1940). South Dakota place-names, compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of South Dakota. American guide series. Vermillion: University of South Dakota – via HathiTrust. Gannett, Henry (1902).
The 300-plus-year-old glass onion bottles were discovered from the 1715 Treasure Fleet shipwreck, located off the coast of Florida. ... Sources: Big Ten to fine Michigan and Ohio State $100,000 ...
Howland Island was named after a whaling vessel in 1842. [126] Jarvis Island was named after three people named "Jarvis" in 1821 (when they discovered the island). [127] Johnston Atoll was named for Captain Charles Johnston in 1807. [128] Kingman Reef was named for Captain W. E. Kingman in 1853. [129]
One of the few successful American glass companies was the New England Glass Company, which was incorporated in 1818 and led by Deming Jarves—the "father of the American glass industry." [ 10 ] Using assistance from the Harvard University library and a British engineer named James B. Barnes , Jarves developed a way to produce red lead from ...
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