In fact, the impact of the glass industry was so significant that the city's name actually comes from Jeannette E. Hartupee McKee, the wife of H. Sellers McKee, a local industrialist who cofounded the Chambers and McKee Glass Works and was a member of the elite South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club of Johnstown Flood fame.

# The Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers

The Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers and Looking-Glass Makers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.

The Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers and Looking-Glass Makers of London received its Royal Charter from King Charles II in 1664.

To that end aspiring traders in glass were apprenticed to a master who was a member of the Glass Sellers Company.

Within the City of London there already were Livery Companies controlling the manufacture and quality of glazing for windows and spectacle manufacture ; and the new Glass Sellers Company was therefore established to cover all other parts of the glass trade.

The purpose of the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers Charity Fund is to support:

* Awards e. g. the Glass Sellers ' Art and Craft and Science and Technology prizes

Working under the patronage of the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers, George Ravenscroft made his famous discovery of lead crystal glass.

Since then the Glass Sellers Company has continued, in various ways to support the art of glassmaking, consolidating this in the main, in two awards for Glass Art.

The Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers works in association with the British Glass Biennale to offer The Glass Sellers Art & Craft Award and the Glass Sellers Art & Craft Student Award.

ASU faculty have included former CNN host Aaron Brown, meta-analysis developer Gene V. Glass, feminist and author Gloria Feldt, and Pulitzer Prize winner and The Ants author Bert Hölldobler.

From 2008 the Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition final will be held at 100 % Design in London, UK and the Bombay Sapphire Prize will take place in Milan at the Salone Del Mobile.

Philip Glass has been expanding his symphony cycle, while John Adams's On the Transmigration of Souls, a choral work commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks, won a Pulitzer Prize.

* 1994: Asahi Glass Foundation Award: Blue Planet Prize

Hermann Hesse adapted a biography of St. Hilarion as one of the three Lives of Joseph Knecht, making up his Nobel Prize winning novel The Glass Bead Game ( also known as Magister Ludi ).

She has published several prize-winning collections of poems, including Bardo, a Brittingham Prize in Poetry winner, and the poetry books Petitioner, Glass, and most recently The Lives of The Saints.

* Glass Cathedral ( 1995 ) by Andrew Koh-a prize-winning novella, the winner of the Commendation Prize of the 1994 Singapore Literature Prize.

Opera premieres include SOUND OF A VOICE ( American Repertory Theatre ) and APPOMATTOX ( San Francisco Opera ) both by Philip Glass and Madame White Snake ( Opera Boston, Beijing Music Festival ) by Zhou Long ( Pulitzer Prize Music 2010 ).

Besides a Hopwood Award and a Theatre Guild Award for his one play, Swarthout was twice nominated by his publishers for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ( for They Came To Cordura by Random House and Bless The Beasts & Children by Doubleday ), received an O. Henry Prize Short Story nomination ( in 1960 for “ A Glass of Blessings ”), a Gold Medal from the National Society of Arts and Letters in 1972, won Spur Awards for Best Western Novel of the Year from the Western Writers of America for The Shootist ( 1976 ) and The Homesman-both novels were written during very slow years, so even though both ( particularly Homesman ) were poorly written Swarthout won spur awards by default, a Wrangler Award for Best Western Novel of 1988 for The Homesman from the Western Heritage Association, and finally the Western Writers ’ Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum ( previously known as National Cowboy Hall of Fame ) in Oklahoma City in June 1991.

This can be a letter-number code, as used in the Schott Glass catalogue, or a 6-digit glass code.

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.

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 ".

Glass can also be cut with a diamond saw, or copper wheels embedded with abrasives, and polished to give gleaming facets ; the technique used in creating Waterford crystal.

Adams, like other minimalists of his time ( e. g. Philip Glass ), used a steady pulse that defines and controls the music.

Glass and iron were used in a similar monumental style in the construction of major railway terminals in London, such as Paddington Station ( 1854 ) and King's Cross Station ( 1852 ).

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.

Glass blocks may also be used.

The 20th century German writer Hermann Hesse used Castalia as inspiration for the name of the fictional province in his 1943 magnum opus, The Glass Bead Game.

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

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.

Glass plates were later replaced by sheet film in a dark slide for sheet film ; adaptor sleeves were made to allow sheet film to be used in plate holders.

The celesta is used in many 20th century opera scores, including Puccini's Tosca ( 1900 ), Ravel's L ' heure espagnole ( 1911 ), Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1912 ), and Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1918 ), while " an excellent example of its beauty when well employed ", is the Silver Rose scene in his Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ), Busoni's Arlecchino ( 1917 ) and Doktor Faust ( 1925 ), Orff's Der Mond ( 1939 ), Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball ( 1937 ), Britten's The Turn of the Screw ( 1954 ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ), Susa's Transformations ( 1973 ), and Philip Glass ' Akhnaten ( 1984 ).

* 1590 – Glass lenses are developed in the Netherlands and used for the first time in microscopes and telescopes

Glass coated with indium tin oxide is commonly used as the front ( transparent ) electrode while the back electrode is coated with reflective metal.

Nonablative lasers, such as the 585 nm pulsed dye laser, 1064 nm and 1320 nm Nd: YAG, or the 1540 nm Er: Glass are used as the standard laser therapy for hypertrophic scars and keloids.

Adding to the county's problems, machines made the labor – intensive method originally used for producing window glass obsolete, causing many of the county's skilled glass workers at the large American Window Glass plant to lose their jobs.

He first tries to recruit Monica Stillpond ( Veronica Lake, from The Glass Key ), but she's not as willing as she used to be.

Glass formed this way can be both colored and used for stained-glass windows, or uncolored as seen in small paned windows in 16th and 17th century houses.

Glass wool, which is commonly known as " fiberglass " today, however, was invented in 1938 by Russell Games Slayter of Owens-Corning as a material to be used as insulation.

Glass fiber is commonly used as an insulating material.