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.

Chapter 17 of William Bates ' 1920 book Perfect Sight Without Glasses, in which the author argues that observation of the sun is beneficial to those with poor vision, includes a figure of somebody " Focussing the Rays of the Sun Upon the Eye of a Patient by Means of a Burning Glass.

The best known is the Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition, held each year, where design students from all over the world can participate by designing their own “ inspired ” martini cocktail glass.

The credits of the original film say that the film is based on In A Glass Darkly.

He is also mentioned in the song " Jeshurun ", on Priest's album Behind the Stained Glass.

Glass doors pose the risk of unintentional collision if a person believes the door to be open when it is closed, or is unaware there is a door at all.

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.

Arguments made by legal experts stated influence on art style is not copyright infringement. Glass warfare from the website of the St. Petersburg TimesThe Seattle Times: Local News: Glass artist Chihuly's lawsuit tests limits of copyrighting art, a 2005 article from The Seattle Times ; Chihuly settled the lawsuit independently with Rubino initially, and later Kaindl as well. Chihuly, rival glass artist settle dispute a 2006 article from The Seattle Times

Glass is an amorphous ( non-crystalline ) solid material.

Glass batch calculation is the method by which the correct raw material mixture is determined to achieve the desired glass composition.

Glass is an amorphous solid.

Glass is in widespread use largely due to the production of glass compositions that are transparent to visible wavelengths of light.

" Hapworth 16, 1924 " is the " youngest " of J. D. Salinger's Glass family stories, in the sense that the narrated events happen chronologically before those in the rest of the great " Glass series ".

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 ").

* 1936 – The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.

Adams was born a generation after Steve Reich and Philip Glass, and his writing is more developmental and directionalized, containing climaxes and other elements of Romanticism.

The main campus of Jadavpur University is bordered by the Raja S. C. Mullick Road, the Jadavpur Station Road, the Kolkata Suburban Rail, South Line and the Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute ( CSIR India ).

It is adjacent to research institutes like the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology and the Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute.

< ol >< li > polarizer | Polarizing filter film with a vertical axis to polarize light as it enters .</ li > < li > Glass substrate with Indium tin oxide | ITO electrode s. The shapes of these electrodes will determine the shapes that will appear when the LCD is turned ON.

In the 1960s the work of the avant-garde minimalist composers La Monte Young, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley also achieved prominence in the New York art world.

Having already written Christian-themed lyrics throughout his time in Glass Harp, Keaggy first found an audience in the burgeoning Jesus music scene, and later achieved worldwide fame as both a songwriter and instrumentalist as it evolved into Contemporary Christian Music.

Hall has achieved some popularity in Australia, regularly appearing at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Adelaide Fringe Festival, and on Australian comedy panel shows, such as The Glass House and Spicks and Specks.

Granger finally achieved some success on Broadway in The Seagull, The Crucible, The Glass Menagerie, and Deathtrap.

For the 1960-1961 season, The Carleton Players have announced Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca, The Knight Of The Burning Pestle by Beaumont and Fletcher and A Moon For The Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill, with a pre-season production of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.

* Appomattox ( opera ), a new opera by Philip Glass

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

* Company, the subtitle of String Quartet No. 2 by composer Philip Glass

Supporting Never Let Me Down, and preceded by nine promotional press shows, the 86-concert Glass Spider Tour commenced on 30 May.

In 1968, he studied glass in Venice on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington. About the Pilchuck Glass School from their websiteIn 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield. Glass Houses: Dale Chihuly Files a Lawsuit That Raises Big Questions ... About Dale Chihuly, a February 2006 article from The Stranger His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye.

" San Diego Union-Tribune reporter Erin Glass wrote that she " wonders at the vision of not just the artist Chihuly, but the wildly successful entrepreneur Chihuly whose estimated sales by 2004 was reported by The Seattle Times as $ 29 million.

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 ).

A glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly, “ The Sun ” at the “ Gardens of Glass ” exhibition in Kew Gardens, London.

* Glass batch calculation, the determination of the correct mix of raw materials for a glass melt

Their early records ( 1982 – 85 ) for labels like Whaam !, Creation, Rough Trade, and Glass Records, had a raw and immediate sound, melodic and amateur, which seemed at odds with the time.

Most of those are employed in industry work in local factories such as Agis-Perrigo ( Careline cosmetics and pharmaceuticals ), Negev Ceramics, Phoenicia Glass Works ( which moved to Yeruham from Haifa in 1968 ) Brand Metals, Ackerstein, Yehu Clays, TTK electronics, and Tempo ( some of which utilize raw materials from the region ).

Fiberglas materials are available from Glass Plastic Supply Co., 1605 W. Elizabeth Ave., Linden, N. J..

Glass and metals are examples of isotropic materials.

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.

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.

Using new materials and open floor plans, best captured by Johnson's Glass House, these treasures are being squandered as buyers are knocking down these architectural icons and replacing them with cookie-cutter new builds.

Glass vacuum flasks are usually contained in or coated with plastic or other materials in order to protect from physical damage and to contain the fragments should it break.

Fiber Glass: Maker of fiber glass yarn for use in electronics, especially printed circuit boards, and specialty materials, such as insect screening, medical casting, and filtration fabrics.

Minimalist music, involving a simplification of materials and intensive repetition of motives began in the late 1950s with the composers Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass.

Patterns are textures that drawn on the body that can range from materials e. g. Glass, Rock, Lava ; skins e. g. Dog, Cow, Parrot ; or outfits e. g. Ninja, Santa, Cute Robot.

Glass has since been replaced by more sophisticated materials but generally these replace, if necessary hand-formed, metal only where weight is of paramount importance.

Writer Stephen Glass had been a major contributor under Kelly's editorship ; Glass was later shown to have fabricated numerous stories, and falsified his notes and other backup materials ; this was publicly apologized for by The New Republic after an investigation by Kelly's successor, Charles Lane — which in turn was sparked by an expose of Glass in Forbes Online.

The department's courses seek to provide a basic understanding of the qualities and characteristics of the materials in the Glass, Electronics, Machine, Jewelry and Wood Shops, as well as to foster an appreciation of the design principles introduced in the Drafting & Design course.

Sykes Racing uses three different composite materials which include Honeycomb Carbon Composite Boats, Honeycomb Kevlar Boats, Honeycomb Glass Boats.