The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-03-06


} GO por cent, But Of course if they
f outlast dozen ordinary ones they
, arc tho cheapest.
81 have been experimenting on
other goods, said no, "and I have
, samples that [ have mado hero as
| well as somo that Mr.. NIuzard has
just brought over from France. He
has lately been at our factory in
Belgium and comes direct from tho
one in France, which is used mostly
for experimenting, and brings some
new processes. .t'"
NJ. Muzard hereupon produced q
number of tumblers, plates and
hnger-glasses, which he recklessly
clashed together much after tho
'shion Of the coffee ,nd,cake. saloon
waiter, and finished up by dashing
the whole lot on the floor sotno ten
fcot away from him. They rebound
Ell and rolled il all directions, but
not ono was broken. He jumped on
them and they did not crack, and
taking them uD one by ona he threw
several on the floor with his whole
strength, but failed to damage
them. .,...
why not mako pots and kettles,
or polccmcns clubs, or Artificial
checks for life insurance agents and
inexperienced newspaper men, or
anything of that kind :" asked the
reporter. ........ ..,.
POTS and kettles, perhaps" said
NJ. Ii Chapcllo. ''But I say nothing
OF that at present. wish to mako
perfectly whatever offer for sale,
and am now only coming to tho i
table crockery, Kitchen utensils
must be very strong. My glass is
not steel, seo!' - 49,
And he threw II small plato against
the brick wall. 1t shattered into
thousand pieces. ..~ n.. ..
"Thc philosophy of the toughoning
process is worry simple" he explained.
"if you take an ordinary piece of
glass and scratch it with d diamond
it will snap easily The reason is
that you have cut through tho out.
side shell which is very hard, You
will notice that our lamp chimneys
are rather thick, We find that while
it does not answer any good pur-
purpose to have them very thick, it
does not do to have them thin. The.
process we put our glass through
simply thickens tho hard shell. You
will notice that tho fragments Of a.
broken chimney of our make, while
taey arc tougher than ordinary frag-
ments of glass, arc not nearly as
t)ugh as a complete chimney This
hardening Of the glass or thickening
Of tho hard surface also decreases
it's conducting properties Ordinary
glass is poor conductor, but our
glass is much poorer ono. It is
an easy matter for us to treat any
piece Of glass by our process, wheth-
cr it be cut or blown glass, and tho
effect is the same. We can treat
the most fragile wine glass SO as to
mako it much stronger, but of
course, being SO thin, such glass
would still be very liable to break"
age. But one of the most valuable
applications Of the patent conceive
to bo the toughening of window
glass and vault cover and sky-light
glass" "
! And he took out pane of CORFU
gated glass three-eighths of an inch
thick, about eight inches by twonty.
four. Leaning it up against his
desk he dropped fve-pound iron
| weight from height of'about three
feet on the oblique surface, and the
weight bounded of: ..... .... a,,.
"Professor Chandler found" he
lid, "that sheet of the prepared
glass similar to one Of ordinary glaea
that would be broken by the fall of q
pound weight ono foot, would stan?co
the fall Of the same weight five feet
without breaking" i9|A "N'oa III '7'''
Il Tho application of this invontiona
seems almost endless. It has been b
found that photographers plstess are
equally sensitive to the suns rays
after boing subjected to tho De Ia
Bastio process, and no one who has
suffered from the loss 'ofH "negative'n
will fail to see the Importance ofthis 4.
fact. How the proverbial queon of.
the kitchon will regard the intro :,
duction of unbroken glassware 10
problematical, to say tho least 'but
to the long suffering ;head o." the
household Q large vista Of economy
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