Windows
There were glass windows in Pompeii, 79 A.D. as is evident from its ruins.
Harper’s Book of Facts, 1905.
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Uranium
A brittle gray metal discovered by Klaproth in 1789, in the mineral pitchblende; lately employed in manufacturing glass for philosophical purposes.
Harper’s Book of Facts, 1905.
Name Your Poison tumblers on eBay.
Copophone
A musical instrument formed of glass tumblers on a sounding board. The sounds are produced by wet fingers on the edge of glasses.
Harper’s Book of Facts, 1905.
Dragon-Stem Goblet at The Corning Museum of Glass.
Jacob Marksons Illuminated Cover at Glassian.
Purple Glass Power Line Insulator at Glassian.
Burmese Glass
The distinctive features of ‘Burmese’ glass is the way the colour shades from pink to yellow, resembling (it was said) a sunset in Burma.
Glass: A Short History by David Whitehouse, 2012.
Glass Block Jello at Our Best Bites.
Japanese sea glass float at Completely Coastal.
Murano Glass at Travelpod.
Isle of Glass
Ynys Gutrin, British name for Glastonbury about 1130.
An Arthurian Dictionary by Charles and Ruth Moorman, 1978.
Looking Glass
The Swedes have brought with them to many Swedish settlements, especially in Minnesota and Wisconsin, the native fancy that a girl must not look into the glass after dark by the aid of any artificial light, under pain of forfeiting all power over the other sex.
Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William S. Walsh, 1892.
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Let him that hath a glass skull not take to throwing stones.
The Antiquity of Proverbs by Dwight Edwards Marvin, 1922.
Mikado teapot. Source unknown.
