New Bedford, Massachusetts : its history, industries, institutions, and attractions . oves the quality ofbrittleness, exhibited by the familiar Prince Ruperts drops. Theglass ware is moved along in the annealing ovens, through a con-stantly decreasing temperature, until it emerges into cold of the ware becomes annealed in twenty-four hours, but thenicest heavy glass, intended to stand the friction of the cuttingwheels, is a week in passing through the ovens. It is not the purpose of this article to go into the interesting detailsof glass manufacture, but rather to allude to the peculi
New Bedford, Massachusetts : its history, industries, institutions, and attractions . oves the quality ofbrittleness, exhibited by the familiar Prince Ruperts drops. Theglass ware is moved along in the annealing ovens, through a con-stantly decreasing temperature, until it emerges into cold of the ware becomes annealed in twenty-four hours, but thenicest heavy glass, intended to stand the friction of the cuttingwheels, is a week in passing through the ovens. It is not the purpose of this article to go into the interesting detailsof glass manufacture, but rather to allude to the peculiar work doneat this factory. Formerly the company was engaged extensively in the manu-facture of lamp chimneys and pressed work, but it has now almostentirely abandoned these branches of the business to the westernfactories. The introduction of electric lighting has created a demand fora new line of goods. This company has a contract with the mana-gers of a prominent arc lighting system for furnishing all the globesused by them. About ten thousand of these globes are kept continu-. SANDERS &. BARROWS CLOTHING STORE. INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL. 217 ally in stock and some weeks as many as five thousand are shippedto the plants controlled by the company. These globes are shippedto tbreign lands, even as far as Australia and Egypt. It is interestingto think of shipping glass from New Bedford to the latter country,where the manufacture of glass was certainly practiced as long agoas three thousand years before Christ. The bulbs for Edison lampsare also blown here and the company makes one hundred fifty varie-ties of incandescent lighting shades. Amberina, or rose amber ware, which is a transparent and effect-ive combination of glass, shading from ruby to the most delicateamber tint, in which the popular optical and hammered effects areproduced, is made here, and the circupistances of its introduction onthe market are interesting. When ruby glass, which, by the way,receives its coloring
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