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Show GLASS, A change from old methods Is that of fashioning glass by machlno pressure pres-sure Instead ot molding by blowing. In tho pressed glass the articles aro cither mado by hand or machine pressure, pres-sure, and this Innovation has dons much toward making glass articles much cheaper than formerly. Only In the last two years havo there been changes In tho method ot glassmaklng Trout tlmo Immemorial tho materials used hate been melted In a largo pot, the modern ones holding hold-ing from 1,000 to 1.G0O pounds of glass, a number of these pots being heated In ono furnace At present In some ot the new establishments theso pots have been replaced by huge tanks or rectangular rec-tangular boxes of masonry holding as much as 400 tons ot the molten glass Attention was recently celled to tbe proposed use of glass brick In building. build-ing. It Is now said that the government govern-ment ot Swltierland has approved tho use ot glass for making weights to bo employed with balance scales A peculiarly tough kind ot glass Is to bo selected for Ibis purpose 1'rom Kngland comes the suggestion that Bias would be bitter and more lasting material than stone for making monument monu-ment which are exposed to the wearing wear-ing action of the westhsr. No industry tutospt that ot cloth mnnutaelurert has contributed to much to tho comfort and advancement ot matt as that of glassmaklng, which Is ono ot the oldest ot technical Industries Indus-tries Its earliest home was Egypt. The British museum has a lion's head of glass bearing hieroglyphics fixing tho data at 2,400 yearu before Christ. Tho most anelsnt glass has necessarily necessar-ily tho same component parts as that of today, and the processes used seen to have been ilmltar In all times. |