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Types of orangery. Coloured engraving.

Glass: three views inside a plate glass factory. Engraving by A. Bell.

Chemistry: chemical apparatus made of glass, metal etc. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1801, after H. Lascelles.

Mirrors: tools and equipment for silvering glass. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.

Women grind glass lenses while two customers try spectacles on. Coloured line engraving, 1799.

Chemistry: weighing apparatus (top), evacuated [?] glass bulb for combustion with sunlight (below). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1801, after H. Lascelles.

Chemistry: burning-glasses and a glass-polishing machine. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1799.

Machines: a gas-fired glass-furnace, long and short sections, plan and details. Engraving, after 1861.

Chemistry: two types of burning-glass, and a glass-polishing machine. Engraving by A. Bell.

Alchemy: three furnaces with glass vessels on two of them. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.

Glass: the British flint glass factory, St Helens, Lancashire. Lithograph.

Glass: the British plate glass factory, St Helens, Lancashire. Coloured lithograph.

Mirrors: a mirror-factory (above), and a work table for silvering glass (below). Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.

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Glass: the British flint glass factory, St Helens, Lancashire. Lithograph.

Glass: the British plate glass factory, St Helens, Lancashire. Coloured lithograph.

Chemistry: chemical apparatus made of glass, metal etc. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1801, after H. Lascelles.

Mirrors: a mirror-factory (above), and a work table for silvering glass (below). Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.

Glass-Making