The story of Pittsburgh: Glass

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623056

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-239768

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Glass

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 5

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1920

Scope:: [ca. 16] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Glass

Collection:: Economics Books

1769, and in 1771 a plant for making green bottles was established in Philadelphia. In 1797, a window glass factory was built in Pittsburgh, by Maj. Isaac Craig and James O'Hara, heing probably the first factory in which coal was used as fuel, for as late as 1810 wood was used in all glass plants except those in or near Pittsburgh. In 1808, Thomas Bakewell and Robert Page completed a flint glass house in this city, and they were the first who successfully made flint glass in the United States. Tt is recorded that pot clay was hauled by wagons to Pittsburgh from Burlington, N. J., pearl ash and red lead were brought ‘rom Philadelphia, and saltpetre was hauled from the natural caves of Kentucky. The product of the Pitts- burgh glass factories early received the approbation of consumers. Cut glass equal to the best quality produced in Europe was made by Messrs. Bakewell and Page. At the Paris Exposition in 1867, the first prize was awarded to an exhibit of pressed glassware, made by the O'Hara Glass Works. The abundance of coal in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, caused Pittsburgh to become the center of the glass making industry of the United States more than a century ago, and inexhaustible deposits of glass-making sand in the vicinity helped to maintain this leading posi- sion. Later the application of natural gas to glass-making served to make the position of Pittsburgh in the glass- making industry more secure. Raw materials which enter into the composition of window glass are sand, known chemically as silica; limestone, or calcium carbonate; salt cake, or sodium sulphate; soda ash and nitrate of soda, and carbon, in the shape of anthracite coal. The supply of these ingredients is practically unlimited, with the exception of soda ash, the cost of which has increased to such an extent, that salt cake is used as a substitute. Pittsburgh has always been a leader in the glass indus- ory, and its future is brighter than ever. Fuel and raw materials are to be found in unlimited quantities within short distances. Great schools, such as the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Mellon Institute, are devoting considerable time to research work for the benefit of the glass industry. What is needed, in addition, to

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