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How the Do LasRastie Process Has Beel
Developed in Rrooh'5n.
From .4shAAssfitr %e ,As''i tro'A; World,
l,{2A little over 4 year "ago attention
was drawn in America to the fact
thnt Mons. a: dc Ia Bastio was bro
I'ducing toughened glass ut his GLASS
I'fodndry, near Paris, by means Of q
process, tho details Of which ho did
mot atdifst. nnak o1Sublic =" "A numbcl
loofHspocimcns were brought to this
country and experiments were made
with them:5. z Q,j7" j~;I g.
The genhiIionccssS of thtc, Specimens
was at first doubted, SO Incredible
sdld tho respltsQ Of these oxpe. i.nonts
Seem to3man$J IL WAS Thought that
they were of some, substance re-
sembling glass; which could be
thrown around the room, dashed
against, the floor, jumped on and
knocked about gencrally. ,.. 1t was
argued thatin the nature of things
and III the light OF the experience of
many generations Of mhnllind, d. On
you dropped q, chunk Of iron, Weigh,
Ing tWploG three pounds, on u ,eheet
Nof glass a. quarter Of an inch thick
the glass would Break, and that,
therefore, when you. dropped suoh
Il chunk onasuch n shcetof. what Nr.
Gle Ia Bastieptlered as Slnss ana it
did not break, you wore justified in
thin king thatit Wasi1fot glass. . No
hypothesis Of what the substance
might be was offered by tho skeptics
but the existence of some plausible
schcme,fo the conversion Of dollars
into francs was suspected, and tho
general public, looked, with some
little curiosity .forh the time wEen
propositions forathe emba,lation of
American capital should hc made. !
Scientists, however, were Il mum
boz Of them convinced th.t 4 v&ll.a-
.blsProcess had +, been discovered.
Among others. Professor EclcsBon
and Professor Chandler, experimel. t.
ed carecplly;witll tile fiDe ga Bas;tio
glass, nd fund that, while it w;:s
not adapted to- the manufacture of
anvils and hammers, it was really
ve:y different from ortlin sly glass.
Still the number of spccime ems at
command was SO small that they
wore forced to wait before formulas
ing the difference, or deciding to
remodel the SMILES Of the world.
In December, 1875, tho first
patent Oh tho process Of producing
the glass was taken out in France,
and it was then found that the, pro.
cess consisted in ;lnne1ling the glass
by plunging it into a bath of oil or
oily substance. A reissue" of the
patent was obtairc in 1876, and
care was taken to obtain pttents not
only in France, but in England, Ger
many, Austria, Franco Belgium,
FRussia, Spain, Italy, Portugal and
Ethe&U United, States. IN ,na
N proposition to American capi~
talists was madez but, on tho contra
rp, M. Ernest }de ] 10 / Clmppelle, a
cousin Of the patentee, came to this
country and in january, 1876,
started foundry in Brooklyn, in
which he began the manufacture of
6 as: ware under the patent Tie
works were unfortunately destroyed
by fire in June last, and much OF
the result of his labor WAS lost. In
the latter part Of September,- how
ever, he was again under way, and
though he lost one season by the
fire, he now has the business Of
manufacturing in full operation.
A visit to the foundry, which is
in Delevan street, Brooklyn, showed
that the glassware produced there is
manufactured in exactly the samo
manner, as all glassware, and is sub
jected to the tougheninS process
aftorwards This process istgappar-
ently q simple one. AS only one
kind of goods is asyet manufactured
for B le, that is, lamp chimneys,
there isno yafiety''in thet process.
A workman, having in his hand a
pole about eiglitfect' long, with q
knob on the epd, of tho size OF q
lamp Burner fits 4 chimney 81 fonI" the
knob and eplupges it intots the, flame
of;a furnace, He withdraws ii
twice or thrice that it may not heat
too quickly, turning the polo rapid
lyethe while.oi andE when 'the glass
reaehes q red heat quickly shoots il
anto cne ofladozen Small Baths fixeG
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