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
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e both window glass andbottles. Years elapsed before they reaped any profit,and likely Mr. Craig pocketed none at all, for after someyears he withdrew and left the business to Col. OHaraentirely. The latter held on, and ultimately won his re- tion of Grant and Water streets. Bakewell & Page, andtheir successors, continued this glass manufacture until1880 anyhow, for the census of that year names them.Theirs was the first flint glass works in this country. Itearly acquired a national reputation. The success of the plate glass business is one of thewonders of the age, albeit its development and perfec-tion, as in all other branches of glass making, was at-tended by large money losses, failures and annoyances.In 1880 there were but four plate glass works in thiscountry, and these were located at New Albany, Ind.,Jeffersonville, Ind., Louisville, Ky., and Crystal City,Mo. Plate glass is melted in vessels or tanks of very largecapacity. When the fusion is complete the tank is lifted S3
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Exterior and Interior of Paul Josephs Showroom, 64 Park Place. 54 bodily by the machinery and carried to the casting table,where its contents are poured over a metal bed withsmooth and highly polished surface. A heavy rollerpasses over the mass, spreading it out in uniform thick-ness, as regulated by the height of strips on the sides ofthe table. Then it goes into the annealing oven for sev-eral days tempering. There is a separate oven for eachplate. When the glass is taken out it goes onto a largerotary platform, to which it is fastened by plaster ofparis, and which revolves so that the entire surface iscovered at each rotation by the disks of grinding ma-chines. These rub the plate first with sand, then withemery and last with rouge, first on one side and then on held in the books to be the contribution of the UnitedStates to the art of manufacture, but Daniel C. Ripleysays : Although it has not been many years since glass wasfirst pressed it cannot be definitely established where a

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