Identifier: crockeryglassjou74newy (find matches)
Title: Crockery & glass journal
Year: 1875 (1870s)
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Subjects: Pottery Glass Glassware
Publisher: New York : G. Whittemore & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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that theannual product of lamps and chimneys is counted in mil-lions, not in thousands. The workman and his brokenbottle opened a new chapter in the history of man andbis achievements. The utilization of petroleum first, and later of naturalgas. spurred forward the manufacture and use of lampsas well as chimneys. One was of no account without the making the poles, for which it is expected to find buyersin the tropics, where insects are quite destructive towooden poles used to carry wires. A comparatively new departure among glass makersis the production of glass in imitation of marble, whichis finding ready adoption in hospitals, and for table topsin restaurants, and in other places where cleanliness isessential; for in this use it is better than marble in thatit will not absorb moisture as marble does. It is cast inthe same manner as plate glass, and afterward groundand polished. This country is making today better window glass,better plate glass, better tableware and the finest cut
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Royal Worcester Porcelain Co., 25 West Broadway. other. The sagacious minds that created the Standard()il Company early perceived the benefits to accrue to itby enlarging the sale of refined oil through increasingthe number of lamps, and it sedulously set about to dothis. Prior to the cheapening and purifying of petro-leum, lard and sperm oil were chiefly used in lamps, withthe Argand burner. But the mineral oil cost a great dealless, and its introduction about the outbreak of the CivilWar was followed by great popularity. Oil refinerspushed its sale, and particularly the Standard Oil Com-pany, which even had special lamps of its own made toxcll at low prices to increase the sale of oil. At Cassel. Germany, telegraph and telephone poles,and hollow ware and bricks for buildings are made ofglass. Twisted wire is interwoven through the glass in glassware, as well as glassware of the most beautifultints and colors, than has ever been made before. Theindustry has grown and developed into s

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