Fifty Years of Glass Making, 1869-1919 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Fifty Years of Glass Making, 1869-1919 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fifty Years of Glass Making, 1869-1919 Figure' not finding any stones on which to place their pots, took some cakes of nitre (bicarbonate of soda) from their cargo for that purpose. The nitre being thus submitted to the action of fire with the sand on the shore, they together produced transparent streams of an unknown fluid, and such was the origin of glass. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.