Glass History - Glass, Stained Glass, History of Optics, British and Irish Stained Glass, Roman Glass, Anglo-Saxon Glass, Robert H. Brill (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 383. Not illustrated. Chapters: Glass, Stained Glass, History of Optics, British and Irish Stained Glass, Roman Glass, Anglo-Saxon Glass, Robert H. Brill, Egyptian Faience, Glassblowing, Stained Glass Conservation, Saint-Gobain, Glass in Islamic Culture, Early Modern Glass in England, Forest Glass, Tin-Glazed Pottery, Hellenistic Glass, Sassanian Glass, Morris & Co., Tin-Glazing, Ancient Glass Trade, Medieval Stained Glass, Hebron Glass, Ancient Chinese Glass, Verreville Glass and Pottery Works, Glasgow, Pauly & C. Compagnia Venezia Murano, Rayonnant, Elegant Glass, Float Glass, Ernst Abbe, Barilla, Glasswort, William Warrington, Mason Jar, Venetian Glass, Murano Glass, Depression Glass, Henry Clay Fry, Manufacture Royale de Glaces de Miroirs, Otto Schott, John Thornton, Bohemian Glass, Purpurin, Michael Joseph Owens, Charles Eamer Kempe, Apsley Pellatt, Rhinestone, Thomas Glazier, Houghton Family, Crown Glass, Friedrich, Antonio Salviati, Turner Museum of Glass, Reduction of Hours of Work Convention, 1935, Georg Friedrich Strass, Sheet-Glass Works Convention, 1934, Sarai Shishgaran, Flexible Glass, Planetarium Jena, National Glass Workers' Trade Protection Association. Excerpt: A glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid material. Glasses are typically brittle, and often optically transparent. Glass is commonly used for windows, bottles, modern hard drives and eyewear; examples of glassy materials include soda-lime glass, borosilicate glass, acrylic glass, sugar glass, Muscovy-glass, and aluminium oxynitride. The term glass developed in the late Roman Empire. It was in the Roman glassmaking center at Trier, now in modern Germany, that the late-Latin term glesum originated, probably from a Germanic word for a transparent, lustrous substance. Strictly speaking, a glass is defined as an inorganic product of fusion which has b...