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George opened a new factory in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and supplied chemical and medical laboratories and hospitals with glass products. After World War II ended, Coby expanded production, made Christmas decoration items and his Christmas items conveyed Georgian motives, such as grape leaves and grapes. Coby died on October 30, 1967, at the age ...
A very important advance in glass manufacture was the technique of adding lead oxide to the molten glass; this improved the appearance of the glass and made it easier to melt using sea-coal as a furnace fuel. This technique also increased the "working period" of the glass, making it easier to manipulate.
Well-dressed children watch toys in the shop window of a department store displaying Christmas decorations on December 11, 1946. AFP - Getty Images F.W. Woolworth Company: 1947
Tom Keogh designed the annual Christmas windows for Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The Fenwick (department store) in Newcastle is known locally for its Christmas window display. Since 1971 there has been a Christmas display in the shop's windows, and people come from near and far to look at them.
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] All glass products must then be cooled gradually , or else they could easily break. [11]
In his corner office at Corning Inc.’s towering steel-and-glass headquarters in Corning, N.Y., CEO Wendell Weeks keeps a small, yellowed piece of paper in a dark wood frame behind his desk ...
A stained glass window is a window composed of pieces of colored glass, transparent, translucent or opaque, frequently portraying persons or scenes. Typically the glass in these windows is separated by lead glazing bars. Stained glass windows were popular in Victorian houses and some Wrightian houses, and are especially common in churches. [24]
As shown in the beloved sitcom, Festivus, celebrated on Dec. 23, is the Christmas alternative for those fed up with the consumerism of the traditional religious holiday. Instead of a tree decked ...