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A forgotten industrial giant, 19th-century glassmaking lives on through the merchant notes and scrip it left behind.

A dinner plate is one important utensil that you just can't do without! From eating your everyday meal to using as a substitute for lids to cover the bowls, plates have important usages in every step ...

Paddy Royall receives funding from the Royal Society, European Research Council and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Before Pilkingtons invented plate glass in the mid-19th century, ...

MOUNT VERNON — Where the largest plate-glass factory in the world once stood, a beautiful, whimsical 250-acre park has sprung. Ariel-Foundation Park has been open for less than a year on the former ...

Microsoft Research, the R&D arm of the Redmond software giant, is testing the storage of huge amounts of data on glass plates in a futuristic initiative dubbed “Project Silica.” If successful, it ...

Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited is a Japan-based company that has four business segments. The Construction-uses Glass segment provides float plate glass, polished wire glass, heat absorbing glass, ...