This book deals with the history of Glass Industry Development in America since Columbus. "The progress of the glass industry in America has been far from constant. It has suffered severe and violent fluctuations, amounting almost to annihilation. Several times it has needed to be born again. But the sum total of these successes and vicissitudes has been the establishment of an industry which, while it is the oldest, is also at the present time one of the most promising and most highly developed of all our industries. To understand its rise and progress, one must be familiar with the elements which go to make it up. Four things are needed to make glass: crude materials; refractory substances for crucibles and furnaces; suitable fuel, and intelligent labor. To make glass commercially, a fifth factor is all important, and that is an accessible market. The history of the industry has consisted in the various possible interchanges between these elements. They are far from permanent..."
Editeur : LM Publishers
Publication : 17 août 2017
Edition : 1ère édition
Intérieur : Noir & blanc
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [Mobi/Kindle + ePub + WEB]
Contenu(s) : Mobi/Kindle, ePub, WEB
Protection(s) : Marquage social (Mobi/Kindle), DRM Adobe (ePub), DRM (WEB)
Taille(s) : 2,09 Mo (Mobi/Kindle), 972 ko (ePub), 1 octet (WEB)
Langue(s) : Anglais
Code(s) CLIL : 3381
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [Mobi/Kindle + ePub + WEB] : 9782366595130
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Nicolas Kluger, Alexandra RAILLAN
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