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.

The biggest impact of early mass production was in manufacturing everyday items, such as at the Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company, which electrified its mason jar plant in Muncie, Indiana, USA around 1900.

The Ampex reel-to-reel tape version of The Beatles, released in 1970 after Capitol / EMI ceased manufacturing of pre-recorded reel tapes in North America, featured eight tracks in edited form: " Dear Prudence ", " Glass Onion ", " Don't Pass Me By ", " Why Don't We Do It In The Road ?".

Winchester is home to several manufacturing plants including Anchor Glass Container Corp., Tomasco Indiana, and OMCO.

Glassboro's early history was built on the manufacturing of glass — the town was first established in 1779 by Solomon Stanger as " Glass Works in the Woods "; glass manufacturers over the years since include Heston-Carpenter Glass Works, Olive Glass Works, Harmony Glass Works, Temperanceville Glass Works, Whitney Brothers Glass Works, Owens Bottle Company, Owens Illinois Glass Company, and Anchor Hocking.

As early as the year 1800 Stephen Van Rensselaer sold to a glass manufacturing company of Sloan's, Albany county, a tract of of land near the body of water whiclihas since been known as Glass lake.

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

Glass manufacturing was a foundation of the local economy, with Bryce Brothers commencing operations in 1850, and L. E. Smith Glass in 1907.

Boat manufacturing was later taken up by a subsequent firm, Quality Plastics, Inc., also of Reeseville, and a product line of boat models were marketed as " Quality Glass " Boats.

Some of the earliest manufacturing industries were: Kerr Glass Manufacturing ; Commander Mills, Kerr, Hubbard and Kelley Lamp and Chimney ; Southwest Box Company and Sinclair Prairie Refining Company.

* Asahi Glass Co., Ltd., technical glass manufacturing company

Glass manufacturing continues to be important.

The company became an important player in international glass manufacturing when it acquired the Plate Glass Group in 1992.

The Plate Glass Group traced its roots to a British immigrant and entrepreneur who, in 1897, established a plate glass manufacturing operation in Cape Town, South Africa.

In the Kansas City metropolitan area, Owens Corning purchases locally-sourced recycled glass from Ripple Glass to manufacture fiberglass insulation in its local manufacturing plant.

Throughout his consulting career, Magaziner's client list has included General Electric, Corning Glass, the Governments of Ireland and Sweden and other high-tech manufacturing and health care companies.

* Xinyi Glass ( 信义玻璃控股有限公司 ), a private company engaged in glass manufacturing

The building influenced the creation of hundreds of modernist glass houses, most notably the Glass House by Philip Johnson, located near New York City and also now owned by the National Trust.

Glass mirrors are most often coated with non-toxic silver or aluminium, implemented by a series of coatings:

Composers such as Terry Riley, Krzysztof Penderecki, György Ligeti, Henryk Górecki, Bradley Joseph, John Adams, George Crumb, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Michael Nyman, and Lou Harrison reacted to the perceived elitism and dissonant sound of atonal academic modernism by producing music with simple textures and relatively consonant harmonies, whilst others, most notably John Cage challenged the prevailing Narratives of beauty and objectivity common to Modernism.

This highway travels over the newly constructed Veterans ' Glass City Skyway which was most expensive ODOT project ever at its completion.

* Rockhopper Copper: The life and times of the people of the most remote inhabited island on Earth by Conrad Glass MBE, Tristan Police Officer ( 2005, Polperro Heritage Press, 176 pages ).

It featured most of the elements from Through the Looking Glass as well, including W. C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, and a Leon Schlesinger Productions animated version of The Walrus and the Carpenter.

Another adaptation, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was produced by Joseph Shaftel Productions ( distributed by Fox-Rank productions ) in 1972, and is felt by many to be the most faithful adaptation to the original novel, with the exception of the omitted scene with the Cheshire Cat ( Roy Kinnear ) replaced by Tweedledum and Tweedledee ( in a scene which remains faithful to their respective scene from Alice Through the Looking Glass ).

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

As Banks ' first novel to eschew ' special effects ', not being Gothic horror like The Wasp Factory, a literary mystery ( Walking on Glass ), or science fiction, most critics regard it as one of his most accessible works.

The intended purpose of Project Glass products would be the hands-free displaying of information currently available to most smartphone users, and allowing for interaction with the Internet via natural language voice commands.

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.

Glass and plastic cuvettes are also common, although glass and most plastics absorb in the UV, which limits their usefulness to visible wavelengths.

By 1971, Glass Harp became one of the most popular ( if not one of the highest-paid ) groups in Northeast Ohio.

That success was the precursor to several glass companies, most notably the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company now known as PPG.

His most famous design, and a distinctive building in the city centre, is the so-called Glaspaleis ( Glass Palace ), listed as one of the world's thousand most architecturally important buildings of the 20th century.

* The Chambers Glass Company, which opened in 1891, was at the time the first, best equipped, and most efficient glass plant in the country.

Among the most important of the regulatory changes was the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999, which repealed the parts of the Glass – Steagall Act which had not already been repealed.

There have been other timpani concertos, notably, Philip Glass, considered one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century, wrote a double concerto titled Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra, which features its soloists playing nine drums apiece.

The term Glass – Steagall Act, however, is most often used to refer to four provisions of the Banking Act of 1933 that limited commercial bank securities activities and affiliations between commercial banks and securities firms.

Others have argued that the activities linked to the financial crisis were not prohibited ( or, in most cases, even regulated ) by the Glass – Steagall Act.

As explained below, however, the term Glass – Steagall Act most often refers to four provisions of the 1933 Banking Act that separated commercial and investment banking.

Over time, the term Glass – Steagall Act came to be used most often to refer to four provisions of the 1933 Banking Act that separated commercial banking from investment banking.

By 2005, Richard Glass considered the differences to be a " serious fracture " but " vitally important to those on both sides of the fracture " and " of little importance to anyone else studying the movement from a software engineering perspective " since they have had " little effect on the field ".

Many commentators have stated that the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act ’ s repeal of the affiliation restrictions of the Glass – Steagall Act was an important cause of the late-2000s financial crisis.

In the period between the wars Krosno evolved gradually into an important industrial centre: a licence was issued to establish a flax straw breaking plant and a linen weaving plant, in the 1920s Polish Glass Factory, Joint-Stock Company was set up, in 1928 the construction of the airfield was begun and the aviation school was moved to Krosno from Bydgoszcz, in the 1930s the hangars were erected.

The most important factories in Buzău, created or enhanced at this time, are located in the Buzău South industrial zone: The Steel Wire and Steel Wire-by Products ( renamed Ductil after 1990 ), The Railway Equipment Factory ( after 1990, Apcarom ), Metalurgica ( founded in 1928 ), The Glass Factory ( after 1991, Gerom S. A .).

Glass ionomers contain and release fluoride, which is important to preventing carious lesions.

In 2011, the FJMC introduced a related Yellow Candle concept for use on Kristallnacht ( The Night of Shattered Glass ) and other important Shoah commemoration dates.

Glass production was important to the town in the 14th and 15th centuries.

Glass making, brewing, and tourism are the most important industries in the town.

Looking Glass was the most important military leader and strategist while Chief Joseph seems to have been mainly responsible for camp management.

Fire escape is often regarded as one of the important symbols in the drama Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.

Through his work with Looking Glass Studios, LeBlanc contributed to a number of important video game titles including Ultima Underworld II, System Shock, Flight Unlimited, Terra Nova, and Thief.

Franken's term is actually revealed to have had some benefits: Franken's campaign for Russia to enter NATO provides important global security ; Franken's Vice President, Joe Lieberman, turns out to be the greatest President in history serving eighteen years in office, and the effects of Franken's dismantling of the remains of the Glass – Steagall Act.