10 Bievez lehr for the annealing of nine glass sheets [38]. Newly mad...Figure 11 The original 563 × 139 m large and 39 m high Crystal Palace design...Figure 12 The making of wired glass from glass cast on two converging tables...Figure 13 The original Saint‐Gobain casting process for plate glass: glass p...Figure 14 Plate glass processes. (a) Sketch of the evolution. (b) Glass flow...Figure 15 The 3.2 m large continuous glass ribbon exiting the annealing lehr...Figure 16 Aerial view of the Jusant polishing machine. Total length of the l...Figure 17 Boucher machine for making bottle‐glass. (a) The first version. (b...Figure 18 The Homer‐Brooke feeder; 1: central vertical shaft; 23: cup‐shaped...Figure 19 The Owens machine. (a) Heads dipping into the pots as they pass ov...Figure 20 Hartford‐Fairmont forehearth.Figure 21 A Boetius furnace for the melting of crystal glass in 12 pots [20]...111 Chapter 10.10Figure 1 The concept of ray of light at the basis of Ptolemy's study of refr...Figure 2 Anachronistic geometrical representation of Ptolemy's refraction me...Figure 3 The rainbow as understood by Dietrich de Freiberg: parallel light o...Figure 4 The objective of Galileo's telescope. These instruments had a typic...Figure 5 Some of the astonishing features revealed by Hooke in Micrographia ...Figure 6 The Animalcula discovered in the Semine masculino of a cock, each h...Figure 7 Guinand's process: stirring of molten flint with a U‐shaped iron ba...Figure 8 “A Cupping‐Glass, to which is attached an Air‐exhausted Compartment...Figure 9 One of the earliest representations of alchemical glassware (MS 232...Figure 10 Lavoisier's chemical glassware at the end of the eighteenth centur...Figure 11 The diversity and Venetian style of the vertical and spiral glass ...Figure 12 The pressure exerted by the atmosphere as indicated by the same he...Figure 13 The traditional procedure for drawing glass tubes from two differe...Figure 14 Pascal's hydraulic press [52], “a vessel full of water, sealed on ...Figure 15 Boyle's mercurial experiments as made with “a long glass‐tube, whi...Figure 16 The key to the safety valve of steam engines [55]. (a) The vapor p...Figure 17 Pressure as a probe of the physiology of plants in experiments mad...Figure 18 A typical eighteenth‐century electrostatic experiment made by Chri...Figure 19 The good use by Crookes of tr€ansparency and other properties of g...Figure 20 The great many types of X‐ray tubes designed during the year 1896 ...Figure 21 An important evolutionary step between discharge tubes and mass sp...Figure 22 Glass technology in the service of astronomy: following Dollond's ...
112 Chapter 10.11Figure 1 Prince Rupert's drops pictured by Hooke; rupture pattern shown on t...Figure 2 Crystal precipitation in a piece of Réaumur's porcelain.Figure 3 Tammann's depiction of the rates of crystal growth and nucleation w...Figure 4 The effects of chemical diversification on the refraction and dispe...Figure 5 A summary of de Luynes' rupture and HF etching experiments on Princ...Figure 6 The marked decrease of breaking stress with increasing fiber diamet...Figure 7 The calorimetric effect of the glass transition: break in the mean ...Figure 8 Anomaly of thermal expansion and heat absorption in the same temper...Figure 9 Effect of thermal history on the glass transition of a light flint ...Figure 10 Heat capacity changes of organic substances in the glass transitio...Figure 11 Heat capacity hysteresis observed for the glass transition of B2O3Figure 12 Structural relaxation in viscosity measurements at 486.7 °C on a w...Figure 13 The X‐ray radial distribution function of SiO2 glass (after [151])...Figure 14 Two‐dimensional projection of the structure of a soda‐silica glass...Figure 15 Raman spectra of SiO2 and B2O3 glasses (after [158]). Sharp peak a...
113 Chapter 10.12Figure 1 Kunstpalast, Glasmuseum Hentrich. Details of its bright‐red ...Figure 2 Large beaker (“Humpen”), dated 1603, with coats of arms...Figure 3 Deutsches Museum, Munich, entrance to department of glass technolo...Figure 4 Technology Museum of Glass, La Granja, Spain. The Museum presents...Figure 5 Technology Museum of Glass, La Granja, Spain. East dome of the hist...Figure 6 European Museum of Modern Glass, Rödental, Germany. By making...Figure 7 European Museum of Modern Glass, Rödental, Germany, whose 2008...Figure 8 Aerial view of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, USA...Figure 9 Beer glass, reputedly found in Dordrecht, The Netherlands, probably...
114 Chapter 11.1Figure 1 Line of bullet voids in the center of the silica core of an optical...Figure 2 Enthalpy spike occurring just after the glass transition of quenche...Figure 3 The X‐ray diffraction patterns of D‐mannitol in the crystalline and...Figure 4 First demonstration by differential scanning calorimetry of the lar...Figure 5 Isothermal compressibility data for various glass‐forming liquids o...Figure 6 Cover page of the centennial issue of the Glass Technology Society,...
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