The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1851-05-29

|pan!ons, throws the vi,riticd dough upon al
lron oupil. The other two men torn il
aver aud over, spread it upon the inverted
iat-iron, andtwilch ont, with pliers, any
speck Of iEapurily: j! is tossed again into
the iadle, ond thrown into cavette in an
other furnace. When the cuyettes are fall.
hat furnace is stopped up TO maintain q
roaring heat for another eight hours; and
n The language Of the men, the ceremony
i perlurmed.h
It this moment, the noise burst forth
from the middle Of the enormous shed. If
several beats Of a gong: SO loud, that they
even drowned the laundering inquiries
with which mr. Bnsso was teasinn one ol
the 'teasers.' IL on instan, the men has.
iened 10 focus, like giants in Christmas
pan,omima about to perform to some won
ferlnI conjaraton; and not whisper was
heard.
'Ahar exclaimed The director, 'thev are
going To- cast. This way, geuilemenr
The kitchen in which the Ogre threaten
ed TO cook Jack and his seven brothers
could not have been bait so formidable an
apartment as the enormous cuisine int
which we were led. One end was occupi-
ID with row Of awful ovens; in the mi1sl.
stood a stupeadous rou table; and upon il
ny rolling pin, SO big, that il could be
anlS .likened 70 h4lfa dozen garden rollers
1I9lned together st their ends Above, wa
il iren crane or gallows 10 litt the enor
nous masses Of redh Cruel, thick and
Slab, which were now 10 be brought from
The furnaces.
'Stand clearr
4 hage basin. white with heat, approach
es, on soIt Of iron hurley; at one end Of
which sits, triumphant, a salamandcr, IN
aaman form, 10 balance The Plutonian mass
il approaches on its wheeled car-pIav-
ing with it--a gone Of see-saw. II stops
ut the foot Of the iron gaIows. Mr.. Bossle
approaches 10 sea what it is, and discover.
it TO he a cavetto filled with molten glass.
glowing from The fiery furnace. What is
that man doing with a glazed mask before
his face?
.Why, il You will believe me- esclaims
Nr. Bessie, in the tones Of speaking
trumpet TIVE are at prudent distance, } he
H. ladling oil the scum, as composedIy as if
II were tnrtle-soupn
Mr. Bessie grows bold, and ventures a
jttIe nearer. Rash man! His nose is rs.
snradiy scorched; be darts back, and takes
Il his spectacles, 10 aseeria ain how much
II the frames are melted. The dreadtu
pot is lifted by the crane. Ii is poised im-
nediately over the table; workman iil,s
il and out pours cataract Of molten opal
which spreads itself, deliberately, like in
ternal sweetsiuh, over the iron table
which is spilled and stopped about, in
crowd Of men, and touches nobody And
has touched nobody since last year. when
me poor fellow got the large shoes he wore
Iiled with while-hot glass; Then the
great rolling pin began TO roll it ou,'
Bnl, those TWO men, narrowly inspecting
every inch o'lhe redhot sheet as the roller
approaches it's their skin salamandrine?
are their eyes fire-prool?
srhey are booking we are told, sfor any
accidental impuriiy that may be still in,ru-
ling in The vitritaction, and, if they can
tear il out with their long pincers before
the roller has passed over il, they are re-
warded. From the shapes these specks as
sumo in being torn away, they are called
stears.''
When the roller has passed over the ia
ble. il leaves Il sheet Of red bot glass, meas
uring some twelve ieet by seven.
This transIlcen, eonfection is pushed
upon flat wooden platform on Wheels
sparkling, as j, touches the wood, like in
Vulnerable diamonds-and is then run rap
iilv to an oven, there to be baked or an
nealed The bed or sole Of This corquese
is hea'ed 10 temperature exactly equal t.
that If tho glass; which is now SO much
cooled that YOU can stand within yard or
SO Of it without fear Of scorching off your
eyelashes. The pot out of the furnace is
cooled too, out in the rain, and lies there. |
burst into hundred pieces. Il has been
n good onc; for il has withstood the fire. |
seventy days.
So rapidly are all these casting opera.
items performed that, from the moment
WIEN hIF. b9~Htt 'bpu9ub utS spCGtHCttN /
were melting off his nose. 10 the moment
when the sheet Of glass is shut up in the
oven, about five minutes have elapsed =
The operations are repeated, until the oven
is fill Of glass plates.
When eigh. plates are put into the cor.
queSe il is closed up hermetically; for the
,inest current Of cold mir would crack lhe
glass. The fire j. allowed to 90 out Of It's
own accord, and the cooling takes place go
gradually, that il is not completed until
eight DAYS are over. When drawn forth.
the glass is that trough plate' which we see
let into the doors of railway stations, and
forming ha,ctransparent for windows and
'ooking-glasses, elaborate processes oil
grinding and polishing are requisite. They
are three in number: roughing down,
smoothing, and polishing.
Il perceive.' said Mr.. Boss'e, when he
got to tho rouehing down room, where
steam machinery was violently ngita!ing
numerous plates Of glass, one upon the 9th
cr, that the diamond cut diamond principle
is adopted
Exactly: the under plate is fastened to
a table bv plaster of Paris, and the upper
one-qnte rough--is violently rubbed b. |