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2. 19th Century glassmaking innovations in the United States

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   Flint glass melted in tank: In 1898 Charles H. Runyon of the Keystone Glass Company in Rochester, Pennsylvania, was the first in the United States to melt the batch for flint glass in a tank. [21] Note 11 ] A second source calls the Rochester company operating at that time (1897–1905) by the name of Keystone Tumbler Company.

3. 19th century glassmaking in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The National Glass Company controlled 19 glass companies, which meant it controlled about 75 percent of the glass tableware market in the United States. [106] The American Window Glass Company trust was created in 1898, and it had over half of the nation's window glassmaking capacity in part because it consisted of many of the large works that ...

4. History of glass - Wikipedia

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   Evidence of glass during the chalcolithic has been found in Hastinapur, India. [24] 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] [25] Glass discovered from later sites dating from 600 to 300 BCE displays ...

5. La Belle (ship) - Wikipedia

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   The wreckage of La Belle lay forgotten until it was discovered by a team of state archaeologists in 1995. The discovery of La Salle's flagship was regarded as one of the most important archaeological finds of the century in Texas, and a major excavation was launched by the state of Texas that, over a period of about a year, recovered the entire ...

6. Early glassmaking in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Glass was not pressed in the United States until the 1820s. [8] Until the 20th century, window glass production involved blowing a cylinder and flattening it. [9] Two major methods to make window glass, the crown method and the cylinder method, were used until the process was changed much later in the 1920s. [10]

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8. S. Donald Stookey - Wikipedia

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   It is the basis for Gorilla Glass, used in iPhones and other LCD screens. Stookey also developed photochromic glass. [1] Photochromic glass is a glass that is used to make ophthalmic lenses that darken in bright light. These lenses were first available to consumers in the 1960s as sunglasses made by Corning Glass Works. It was a joint discovery ...

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