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almost molten glass in a heated bath of oil or grease. 1888: Machine-rolled glass introduced, allowing patterns. 1898: Wired-cast glass first commercially...

rolled sheet glass products are cut to size either by scoring and snapping the material, laser cutting, water jets, or diamond-bladed saw. The glass may...

Crown glass is still made today, but not on a large scale. Rolled glass (sometimes called "table glass") is produced by pouring molten glass onto a metal...

Smart glass, also known as switchable glass, dynamic glass, and smart-tinting glass, is a type of glass that can change its optical properties, becoming...

machine rolled patterned glass method in 1888. In 1898, Pilkington invented Wired Cast glass, where the glass incorporates a strong steel-wire mesh for...

a sort of felt pad or belt that is often rolled for convenience. Typical dimensions for most domestic wire-wool might be about 1 cm/¼" thick by 8cm/3"...

Glass fiber (or glass fibre) is a material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass. Glassmakers throughout history have experimented with...

during glass casting for joining the halves of glass molds, making items such as bottles and jars. Welding glass is accomplished by heating the glass through...

Glass-ceramics are polycrystalline materials produced through controlled crystallization of base glass, producing a fine uniform dispersion of crystals...

and then rolled into the round shape we call wire. This early wire, which was used in making jewelry, can be distinguished from modern wire by the spiral...

Hiroshi; Ikari, Yoshimitu; Ohba, Naoki (2014). "Roll-to-roll sputter deposition on flexible glass substrates". Surface and Coatings Technology. 241:...

Fly-by-wireless systems are very similar to fly-by-wire systems, however, instead of using a wired protocol for the physical layer a wireless protocol...

plastic using glass fiber. The fibers may be randomly arranged, flattened into a sheet called a chopped strand mat, or woven into glass cloth. The plastic...

a fact particularly evident when drawing thin wires. The starting point of cold drawing is hot-rolled stock of a suitable size. Successful drawing depends...

which meant that the wire wrap board was placed upside down (pins up) onto a horizontal tooling plate, which was then rolled into the machine and locked...

pierces a hole. The beads again are rolled in hot sand to remove flashing and soften seam lines. By making canes (the glass rods fed into the machine) striped...

video; for comparison, the 2019 prototype featured 3 mm-thick (1⁄8 in) cold-rolled panels, according to Musk. These panels cannot be stamped like conventional...

Looking Glass War is a 1970 British neo-noir action-thriller film directed by Frank Pierson based on the 1965 novel by John le Carré The Looking Glass War...

"Heart of Glass" is a song by the American new wave band Blondie, written by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. It was featured on the band's...

compounds, chiefly the metasilicate, also called waterglass, water glass, or liquid glass. The product has a wide variety of uses, including the formulation...