* A section of a wall from the Glass Drawing Room of Northumberland House, dated 1773 – 75, designed by Robert Adam

Glass curtain wall of the Bauhaus Dessau

Glass wall of the building

Glass bricks are produced for both wall and floor applications.

Glass blocks for use in floors are normally manufactured as a single solid piece, or as a hollow glass block with thicker side walls than the standard wall blocks.

Glass wall blocks should not be used in flooring applications.

The latter consists of three distinct parts: on the east, the Great Audience Hall and the Lion Throne Room are erected on an earthen basement contained by a brick wall ; the whole of the western portion, from the western most extremity up to and including the Hman-nan or Glass Palace, is likewise an earthen basement surrounded by a masonry wall ; these two basements are connected, from the Hman-nan up to the Lion Throne Room, by a plank flooring of the same level supported by numerous teak posts.

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

Glass blocks may also be used.

Glass blocks for floors are normally cast into a reinforced concrete grid work or set into a metal frame, allowing multiple units to be combined to span over openings in basements and roofs.

Glass blocks in Europe are manufactured in accordance with the European Standard EN1052-2.

* Greenhouse effect: Glass transmits visible light but blocks infrared thermal radiation from escaping.

Ladytron's mix of " Like Eating Glass " replaces the lead and rhythm guitars with looped synthesisers and adds a large amount of reverberation to the vocals ; the resulting effect was described by Pitchfork Media's Nitsuh Adebe as " walking out of your apartment and thinking you can hear Bloc Party playing a festival six blocks over ".

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

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 navigable Manasquan River and its tributaries are crossed by three drawbridges, the Brielle Road Glimmer Glass Bridge, the Route 35 Manasquan River bridge, and the NJ Transit railroad bridge, and one fixed bridge – the Route 70 September 11 Memorial Bridge.

Sferra and Pecchio continued to perform together as Glass Harp, adding guitarist Tim Burks and violinist Randy Benson.

Having performed together occasionally since 1981, in October, Keaggy, John Sferra and Daniel Pecchio reunited as Glass Harp for a concert in their hometown of Youngstown, Ohio at a sold out Powers Auditorium.

The album was more experimental and free-form in nature than previous Glass Harp recordings, and includes extended versions of older material bridged together by the nearly-sixteen-minute " Beachland Jam ".

With the demise of Looking Glass Studios, Eidos Interactive secured the rights to the Thief franchise and together with Spector tried to relocate as many of the Looking Glass team to Austin as was possible.

Glass marbles can be fashioned through the production of glass rods which are stacked together to form the desired pattern, cutting the rod into marble-sized pieces using marble scissors, and rounding the still-malleable glass.

GLARE is a " Glass Laminate Aluminium Reinforced Epoxy " FML, composed of several very thin layers of metal ( usually aluminium ) interspersed with layers of glass-fibre " pre-preg ", bonded together with a matrix such as epoxy.

Within the castle grounds lies St Donat's Arts Centre, housed in a 14th-century tithe barn which has been converted to a professionally equipped theatre, together with a contrasting new addition of the Glass Room.

From the 17th century, there have been glassworks in Amblecote, including Thomas Webb and Dennis Hall, and together with the adjoining village of Wordsley, formed the main centre of the Stourbridge glass industry, now known as " The Glass Quarter ".

( Gaiman and Seeing Ear Theatre went on to collaborate on an adaptation of another story, " Snow, Glass, Apples ", and the two adaptations have been released together on CD under the title Two Plays for Voices.

Glass with incompatible COE, mixed together, can create powerful stresses within a finished piece as it cools, cracking or violently shattering the piece.

Behind the Glass was the first television reality show in Russia, where six men and women between the ages of 21 and 24 living together in a glass apartment, filmed by 26 cameras.

After Smith's death, artists such as Philip Glass or DJ Spooky provided musical backgrounds for screenings of his films: Glass at the 2004 summer benefit concert of the Film-Makers ' Cooperative and DJ Spooky at several venues in 1999 for Harry Smith: A Re-creation, an embroidered compendium of Smith's films put together by his close collaborator M. Henry Jones who tries to screen the films in the manner intended by Smith-as performances-using stroboscopic effects, multiple projections, magic lanterns, and the like.

Bowie, who had run into Tony Sales in Los Angeles at a wrap party for his Glass Spider Tour, convinced Tony to call his brother Hunt so they could work together.

Through a Glass Darkly is the first film in a trilogy focused on spiritual issues ( together with Winter Light and The Silence ).

Glass flasks, stoppers, valves, funnels, and tubing are often connected together by ground glass joints, matching pairs of conical or spherical surfaces that have been ground to a precise shape.

The poem describes the friendship that springs up between two trappers-an older man named Hugh Glass, and a younger named Jamie-who fight, scout and hunt together in the wilds.

Western Aberdeenshire was defined by the 1868 legislation as consisting of the parishes of Aboyne and Glentanner, Alford, Auchindoir and Kearn, Auchterless, Birse, Chapel of Garioch, Clatt, Cluny, Coull, Crathie and Braemar, Culsalmond, Drumblade, Dyce, Echt, Forgue, Glenbucket, Glenmuick, Tullich and Glengairn, Huntly, Insch, Inverurie, Keig, Kemnay, Kildrummy, Kincardine O ' Neil, Kinnellar, Kennethmont, Kintore, Leochel-Cushnie, Leslie, Logie-Coldstone, Lumphanan, Midmar, Monymusk, Newhills, Oyne, Peterculter, Premnay, Rayne, Rhynie, Skene, Strathdon, Tarland and Migvie, Tough, Towie, Tullynesle and Forbes, together with the part of the parish of Old Machar lying west of the River Don, and the parts of the parishes of Banchory-Devenick, Cabrach, Cairnie, Drumoak and Glass within the County of Aberdeen, and the parish of Gartly in Banffshire.

Glass missed only two league games due to injury in 2004 – 05 and his presence helped hold together a Hibs midfield which was weakened by lengthy injuries to star players Scott Brown, Kevin Thomson and Guillaume Beuzelin.