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The I936 Skater H The Senior Class Corning Free Academy pu Us ed by OF Corning, New York Volum 3
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THE STCRY OF GLASS Tl-IE SPIRIT OF PRGGRESS along educatnonal Innes, which has made lcnowledge an essential ID mans llle today IS reflected IU advancements IU various other luelds As schools have llourushed IH ventlons and experxments along sclentuluc and In dustrlal Innes have Influenced the lrves ol people all over the world The ruse of the glass lndustry from its crude beglnnlngs hundreds ol years ago IS one ex ample of such progress and advancement The word glass was undoubtedly derlved from the old Teutonic root gla which means gleaming or shining The orlgtn ol glassmaltlng as a subject which was greatly dnsputed by Plnny Josephus and other learned anclents Pllny s versuon of the discovery of glass concerns Phoenuclan sailors who landed upon the sandy banlc ol a small Palestine rlver and buu't a lure to coolc theur meal They supported their coolung pots upon lumps ol natron or natlve sodium carbonate When the lure had died out they found that the sand and natron had fused and produced a transparent metal The wealcness ol this story Iles IU the lmprobablllty of such a lure producing a degree ol heat sulllclent to combine the materials Josephus tells of a huge forest lure near the seashore whnch created such lntense heat as to melt the mixture ol sand and natron and leave lumps ol the substance whlch became Icnown as glass Pourlng a ladle of glass unto the two hundred unch mold for the telescop c eye Regardless ol how the discovery ol glass came about It IS true that as lar baclc as 9500 B C glass malcung was practased ln Mesopotamla I-lere, beads were fabricated from a pasty substance lar dlllerent from the molten metal whuch IS ladeled from glass pots today When glass was being developed Into decorative forms the Syrian methods ol glass manlpulatlon were carrled Into many other countries The Sldonlans, Mesopotamlans and Chinese produced such expert nmltatnons ol preclous and sem: preclous stones that many of these bats ol green and blue glass have been mustalten for rare jewels The development ol the glass lndustry ID Egypt IS also one ol extreme Interest The Egyptlan mosaic worlc and Egypts triumph ol all colors, Nile blue, have never been rrvaled ln the Greco Roman era when ID the Golden Age of Perrcles the portals ol classlclsm and beauty were opened, glass began to be used more and more lor architectural purposes ln Athens glass floors cell nngs and srde wall panellngs were common whale rn Rome glass was used In the construction of the famous Roman baths The Spanish lnlluence upon glass IS remarlcable, too for chandeliers mnrrors and engraved glassware were made as lar bacl4 as the thirteenth century Page Two , . . , . . , ' 1 - it lt , T 1 , .- H , .1 , ,. if . 4 P' . . . . . 1 1 ' ' 4 . 1 . . I . . . . . I ' 1 1 . . . . .. h I - . . . . I . 1 1 1 1
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