Old English Glass (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Old English Glass Then one of the merchants, struck by a happy thought, ordered that some blocks of natron should be landed, for being convenient in size and hard in substance, they would doubtless provide the materials suitable for the building of temporary stoves. So a number were transferred from the ship to the shore, built up in the form of primitive "grates" and fired. But while the kettles were boiling the natron began to melt, which caused the alkali to form a flux for the silicons sand, so that very soon the merchants were astonished to see flowing down to the river a liquid and transparent stream - which they afterwards came to recognize as liquid glass. The story might possibly be accepted were it not for the fact that natron melts only at a temperature very little below 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit - a heat not likely to be generated by a fire built merely for cooking purposes. A much more probable story is that propounded by scientists of a later day, who suggest that the secret of glassmaking was revealed by lightning striking on the sea shore and thus vitrifying the different substances contained in the sands. Under whatever circumstances, however, the art of glass-making was first revealed, it is certain that it has been carried on since the earliest times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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