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Persian Window, St. Peter's Church, New York City, 1994 [55] Fern Green Tower, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, 1999 [56] Glass Garden and Chandelier, Mandarin Oriental New York, New York City, 2003; Blue and Gold Chandelier, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, 2010 [57] Ohio. Chihuly Collection Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, 2003 [58]
His machines could produce glass bottles at a rate of 240 per minute, and reduce labor costs by 80%. [4] Owens and Libbey entered into a partnership and the company was renamed the Owens Bottle Company in 1919. In 1929 the company merged with the Illinois Glass Company to become the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. [5] [6]
Labino working on a piece of glass at his workshop in October of 1971. Dominick Labino (December 4, 1910 – January 10, 1987) was an American internationally known scientist, inventor, artist and master craftsman in glass.
A stage in the manufacture of a Bristol blue glass ship's decanter.The blowpipe is being held in the glassblower's left hand. The glass is glowing yellow. As a novel glass forming technique created in the middle of the 1st century BC, glassblowing exploited a working property of glass that was previously unknown to glassworkers; inflation, which is the expansion of a molten blob of glass by ...
Mitsugi Ohno (大野 貢, Ōno Mitsugi, June 28, 1926 – October 22, 1999) was a Japanese glassblower who worked at the University of Tokyo (1947–1960) and Kansas State University (1961–1996). He was known for blowing a glass Klein bottle and glass models of historic buildings and ships. He told people "Anything that can be made with glass ...
An example of the type of retailer that sold Seneca Glass products is a 1932 advertisement by Bloomingdale's that mentions a sale on "Hand–Blown Crystal Glass" made by Seneca Glass Company—"famous for quality glass". [107] In 1961 the state of West Virginia listed some of Seneca Glass Company's well–known customers.
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]
Utica was the largest hand blown window glass factory city in the US at the turn of the 20th century due to natural occurring silica and natural gas. The glass would be gathered in a molten ball and blown into a long tube. The ends would be cut off, the tube re-heated, cut, and laid flat creating the window glass.