The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, " The Accrington NORI " ( iron ), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower ; famous for its football team and for having Europe's largest collection of Tiffany Glass.

During the early 20th century, iron ore slag was also ground to a powder and used to make ' Agate Glass ', also known as ' Slag Glass '.

Glass can be suitably ground and has the benefit that it chips rather than raising a burr which is a problem when using cast iron.

Glass doors applied with wrought iron screens by René Chambellan depicting the artisan trades open to the vast limestone banking hall, long, with a central nave divided from side aisles by Romanesque columns with cast-stone capitals.

Glass beads were being made in Murano by the end of the 14th century.

Doom principal rivals were Apogee's Rise of the Triad and Looking Glass Studios ' System Shock.

Among the acts he selected for the festival were Philip Glass, Television and The Dandy Warhols.

For the quantitative analysis, ten articles were selected at random – circumcision, Charles Drew, Galileo, Philip Glass, heart disease, IQ, panda bear, sexual harassment, Shroud of Turin and Uzbekistan – and letter grades of A – D or F were awarded in four categories: coverage, accuracy, clarity, and recency.

The classic film noirs The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key ( 1942 ) were based on novels by Hammett ; Cain's novels provided the basis for Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), and Slightly Scarlet ( 1956 ; adapted from Love's Lovely Counterfeit ).

Concertos for the instrument were written by Francis Poulenc ( the Concert champêtre, 1927 – 28 ), Manuel de Falla, Bertold Hummel, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, and Roberto Carnevale.

The result of Goebbels ’ incitement was Kristallnacht, the " Night of Broken Glass ," during which the S. A. and Nazi Party went on a rampage of anti-Jewish violence and destruction, killing at least 90 and maybe as many as 200 people, destroying over a thousand synagogues and hundreds of Jewish businesses and homes, and dragging some 30, 000 Jews off to concentration camps, where at least another thousand died before the remainder were released after several months of brutal treatment.

Glass mirrors from this period were extremely expensive luxuries.

They were followed by composers such as Philip Glass, Mark Adamo, John Corigliano, Robert Moran, John Coolidge Adams, and Jake Heggie.

After Kristallnacht (" The Night of Broken Glass "), the Jews were fined 1, 000, 000 marks for damages done by the Nazi troops and SS members.

* The assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by a German-born Polish Jew triggers the Kristallnacht ( The Night of Broken Glass ) held between the 9 to 10 November 1938 and carried out by the Hitler Youth, the Gestapo and the SS during which the Jewish population living in Nazi Germany and Austria were attacked – 91 Jews were murdered and 25, 000 to 30, 000 were arrested and placed in concentration camps.

His work reached world-wide audiences in the early 1950s when The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire were made into motion pictures.

Characters such as Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and Sebastian in Suddenly, Last Summer were understood to represent Williams himself.

The Pier also has an IMAX theater, and the Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows, many of which were salvaged from Chicago mansions.

They were Rachel, Rachel ( 1968 ), based on Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God, the screen version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds ( 1972 ), the television screen version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Shadow Box ( 1980 ), and a screen version of Tennessee Williams ' The Glass Menagerie ( 1987 ).

Glass plates were later replaced by sheet film in a dark slide for sheet film ; adaptor sleeves were made to allow sheet film to be used in plate holders.

Glass production and dye-making from marine snails were the city's most lucrative industries.

In the 1970s, more sophisticated analytical techniques were introduced in educational research, starting with the work of Gene V. Glass, Frank L. Schmidt and John E. Hunter.

Another example was the Glass – Steagall Act passed in 1933 during the Great Depression in the United States, most of the Glass-Steagall provisions were repealed during the 1980s and 1990s.

This can be a letter-number code, as used in the Schott Glass catalogue, or a 6-digit glass code.

Leading contemporary composer Philip Glass described Low as " a work of genius " in 1992, when he used it as the basis for his Symphony No. 1 " Low "; subsequently, Glass used Bowie's next album as the basis for his 1996 Symphony No. 4 " Heroes ".

Glass can also be cut with a diamond saw, or copper wheels embedded with abrasives, and polished to give gleaming facets ; the technique used in creating Waterford crystal.

Adams, like other minimalists of his time ( e. g. Philip Glass ), used a steady pulse that defines and controls the music.

Note that in England and Wales, the circumstances where Promissory estoppel may be used to overcome the statute are limited-see Actionstrenght Ltd v. International Glass Engineering UKHL 17-and some jurisdictions deny this possibility altogether.

Glass blocks may also be used.

The 20th century German writer Hermann Hesse used Castalia as inspiration for the name of the fictional province in his 1943 magnum opus, The Glass Bead Game.

Image: Glass bottom boats & Semi sub. JPG | Glass bottom boats and a Semi submarine which are used for coral viewing at Green Island ( Queensland ), Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Glass fibre is used in the production of spacesuits, ironing board and mattress covers, ropes and cables, reinforcement fibre for composite materials, insect netting, flame-retardant and protective fabric, soundproof, fireproof, and insulating fibres.

The celesta is used in many 20th century opera scores, including Puccini's Tosca ( 1900 ), Ravel's L ' heure espagnole ( 1911 ), Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1912 ), and Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1918 ), while " an excellent example of its beauty when well employed ", is the Silver Rose scene in his Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ), Busoni's Arlecchino ( 1917 ) and Doktor Faust ( 1925 ), Orff's Der Mond ( 1939 ), Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball ( 1937 ), Britten's The Turn of the Screw ( 1954 ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ), Susa's Transformations ( 1973 ), and Philip Glass ' Akhnaten ( 1984 ).

* 1590 – Glass lenses are developed in the Netherlands and used for the first time in microscopes and telescopes

Glass coated with indium tin oxide is commonly used as the front ( transparent ) electrode while the back electrode is coated with reflective metal.

Nonablative lasers, such as the 585 nm pulsed dye laser, 1064 nm and 1320 nm Nd: YAG, or the 1540 nm Er: Glass are used as the standard laser therapy for hypertrophic scars and keloids.

Adding to the county's problems, machines made the labor – intensive method originally used for producing window glass obsolete, causing many of the county's skilled glass workers at the large American Window Glass plant to lose their jobs.

He first tries to recruit Monica Stillpond ( Veronica Lake, from The Glass Key ), but she's not as willing as she used to be.

Glass formed this way can be both colored and used for stained-glass windows, or uncolored as seen in small paned windows in 16th and 17th century houses.

Glass wool, which is commonly known as " fiberglass " today, however, was invented in 1938 by Russell Games Slayter of Owens-Corning as a material to be used as insulation.

Glass fiber is commonly used as an insulating material.