Glass mirrors from this period were extremely expensive luxuries.

Today Gardner Glass Products Inc. still produces mirrors in North Wilkesboro.

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

Glasses are classified using the Schott Glass letter-number code to reflect their composition and position on the diagram.

In the United States in 1995, the Glass Ceiling Commission, a government-funded group, stated: " Over half of all Master ’ s degrees are now awarded to women, yet 95 % of senior-level managers, of the top Fortune 1000 industrial and 500 service companies are men.

Further glass forming techniques are summarized in the table Glass forming techniques.

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

The Blaschka Glass Flowers are still an inspiration to glassblowers today.

Glass and metals are examples of isotropic materials.

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.

Vertical ridges etched on the surface are smooth .</ li > < li > Twisted nematic liquid crystal .</ li > < li > Glass substrate with common electrode film ( ITO ) with horizontal ridges to line up with the horizontal filter .</ li > < li > Polarizing filter film with a horizontal axis to block / pass light .</ li > < li > Reflective surface to send light back to viewer.

Glass block or glass brick are blocks made from glass and provide a translucent to clear vision through the block.

This theory, conceived by a British Glass manufacturer, proposes that the first two figures are Gauis Octavius, father of the future emperor, and Attia Julia Balboa, his mother ( hence the cherub with the arrow ) who had a dream of being impregnated by Apollo in the form of a sea serpent ( ketos ), note the snake's prominent teeth.

Glass Moonshine slides are made of glass, but have a porous ceramic interior that helps prevent slipping ; other slides have been designed to reduce the weight of brass or porcelain slides by using a lightweight interior, while still others are made of glass on the front and of metal on the back to allow easy switching.

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.

A sequel, System Shock 2, was released by Looking Glass Studios and off-shoot developer Irrational Games in 1999 ; the 2000 game Deus Ex and the 2007 game BioShock are spiritual successors to the two games.

Glass partition walls are a series of individual toughened glass panels, which are suspended from or slide along a robust aluminium ceiling track.

Glass candle holders are sometimes cracked by thermal shock from the candle flame, particularly when the candle burns down to the end.

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.

Glass sponges are different from other sponges in a variety of other ways.

There are five main types of Time Controls: ( 1 ) Fischer ( invented by Bobby Fischer ), ( 2 ) Bronstein ( invented by David Bronstein ), ( 3 ) Simple Delay, ( 4 ) Game Word and ( 5 ) Hour Glass.

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

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.

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.

Glass manufacturing, Sidon's most important enterprise in the Phoenician era, was conducted on a vast scale, and the production of purple dye was almost as important.

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.