USES OF GLASS
FRYING PAN AND ROPE AD VAXCE MAXUhWCTUIiE Glass experts were not cxciteo about the wedding gown, hat., shoes and handbag of pale, blue glass worn by an Edinburgh bride, Helen Munro. Greater wonders in glass manufacture were exhibited recently by the Department of Glass Technology of Sheffield University, in conjunction with the Glass Manufacturers' Federation. Onlookers were amazed to see:— Glass: tough enough to make bill-, let-proof windows for tanks and. aircraft, frying pans, electric radiators and pipe-lines. Cellular glasses, remarkably light in weight and sponge-like in appearance,, for heat insulation. Nails can be driven into it. Glass yarn woven into ropes., cord, cloth and tape, for use in elcctrical and chemical apparatus. Glass grains more powdery than sand for use in the manufacture of cinema screens. The star exhibit was a glass radiator, heating elements of which were aluminium strips sprayed on toughened glass plates. For gardeners, there were glass "labels"—small pointed stoppered bottles in which; gardening data can be enclosed and which can be pegged into the ground.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 26, 23 November 1943, Page 7
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173USES OF GLASS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 26, 23 November 1943, Page 7
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