Glass has the ability to refract, reflect, and transmit light following geometrical optics, without scattering it.

Glass has a higher dielectric strength, but it attracts condensation and the thick irregular shapes needed for insulators are difficult to cast without internal strains.

Glass in particular has recently turned to conventional orchestras in works like the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra and the Violin Concerto No. 2.

Glass has a higher refractive index than air.

With Jim Rockhill and Brian J. Showers, Crawford has edited Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

Toledo is known as the Glass City because of its long history of innovation in all aspects of the glass industry: windows, bottles, windshields, construction materials, and glass art, which the Toledo Museum of Art has a large collection.

In Commissioner v. Glenshaw Glass Co.,, the Supreme Court laid out what has become the modern understanding of what constitutes ' gross income ' to which the Sixteenth Amendment applies, declaring that income taxes could be levied on " accessions to wealth, clearly realized, and over which the taxpayers have complete dominion.

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

Glass sponges are relatively uncommon and are mostly found at depths from although the species Oopsacas minuta has been found in shallow water, while others have been found much deeper.

Opened in 2002, the Ohio Glass Museum is located in historic downtown Lancaster and dedicated to recording the history of the glass industry, which for over 100 years has been one of the mainstays of the economy of Fairfield County.

In 2012, Brin has been involved with the Project Glass program and has demoed eyeglass prototypes.

Glass has been placed higher than 7 World Trade Center.

In Facts and Fallacies about Software Engineering, Robert Glass refers to Linus ' Law as a " mantra " of the Open source movement, but calls it a fallacy, stating that research has found that the number of bugs found decreases with too many inspectors, and that no research supports the Law as stated.

The American composer Philip Glass has also written a symphonic cantata named Itaipu, in honour of the structure.

The main difference to K. minor is the longer anal fin of the Glass Catfish, which in the latter has more than 54 and up to 68 rays.

She has performed in theatre productions of The Playboy of the Western World, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Glass Menagerie, Hedda Gabler, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Heidi Chronicles and Uncle Vanya.

On Saturday, September 2, 2003, the Phillips football field ( James E. Glass Stadium ) was named after Coach James E. Glass in honor of the dedication he has given to the football team and school throughout the years.

The Kokomo Opalescent Glass Works started making stained glass in Kokomo in 1888 and has been in continuous operation ever since.

Corning Incorporated has a plant located in Harrodsburg, which makes Gorilla Glass.

Cardinal Glass Industries has a float glass manufacturing facility in western Durant.

The poet Peter Oresick has also written about it in The Story of Glass ( 1977 ).

Fenton Art Glass Company has officially stopped making glass.

BuddyTV praised Matthew Fox's lead role performance in " Through the Looking Glass " as " Emmy worthy " The San Diego Union-Tribune < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Karla Peterson praised Fox's work in " Something Nice Back Home ", The Palm Beach Post < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Kevin Thompson " thought Matthew did a nice job conveying a wide range of emotions — scared, haunted, frustration, jealousy, just to name a few " in the same episode.

Notable examples include Mike Oldfield's " Guilty " ( 1979 ) Blondie's " Heart of Glass " ( 1978 ), Cher's " Hell on Wheels " and " Take Me Home " ( both 1979 ), Barry Manilow ’ s " Copacabana " ( 1978 ), David Bowie's " John I'm Only Dancing ( Again )" ( 1975 ), Rod Stewart's " Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?

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 ".

Alexander McQueen's Fall / Winter 2007 Menswear fashion show used a mash up of Bowie's " Heroes " with Glass ' " Heroes.

Symphony No. 1 " Low ", also known as the " Low " Symphony, is a symphony by Philip Glass based on David Bowie's album Low.

In 1996, Glass based another symphony on a David Bowie album, Bowie's following album " Heroes ".

Glass did not base the symphony on the original album, but rather a remastered version with the track " Some Are ", which did not feature on Bowie's original recording.

Bowie and Reeves met through Reeves ' wife, who was part of the press staff for the North American leg of Bowie's 1987 Glass Spider world tour.

She also performed with Canadian singer Norman Iceberg and dancers Viktor Manoel ( David Bowie's " Glass Spider " tour ) and Luca Tommassini at Prince's notorious Glam Slam.

File: Clare Island Lighthouse Optic at The World of Glass. jpg | The optic from the Clare Island lighthouse now on permanent rotating display at The World of Glass gift shop, St. Helens, UK

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.

Glass beads have been in use for almost five centuries in the Americas.

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

US minimalist composer Philip Glass wrote a prelude focused on the lower register that he scored for timpani and double bass.

One is located at the Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip, List of stores from the Bellagio hotel / casino website the other at the MGM Grand Casino in Macau. Press release by MGM Macau mentioning Chihuly shop ( search for " Chihuly retail ") A number of other galleries also carry his pieces. In 1983 Chihuly returned to his native Pacific Northwest where he continued to develop his own work at the Pilchuck Glass School, which he had helped to found in 1971.

In 2010 the Space Needle Corporation submitted a proposal for an exhibition of Chihuly's work at a site in the Seattle Center, in competition with proposals for other uses from several other groups. The project, which sees the new Chihuly exhibition hall occupy the site of the former Fun Forest amusement park in the Seattle Center park and entertainment complex, received the final green light from the Seattle City Council on April 25, 2011. Divisive Dale Chihuly Glass-Art " Museum " Approved for Former Seattle Amusement Park ARTINFO. com It opened May 21, 2012. Chihuly Garden and Glass Opens with Dedication Ceremony on Monday, May 21 prnewswire. comDale Chihuly's ' Glass House ' shines in Seattle publicbroadcasting. net

In September 2005, the opera Waiting for the Barbarians by Philip Glass premiered in the opera house.

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 ).

Glass also finds application in optoelectronics e. g., for light-transmitting optical fibers.

Le Fanu's short story collection In a Glass Darkly ( 1872 ) includes the superlative vampire tale Carmilla, which provided fresh blood for that particular strand of the Gothic and influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).

It is in the form of a letter from camp written by a seven-year-old Seymour Glass ( the main character of " A Perfect Day for Bananafish ").

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.