Antique glass making. Illustration of how glass blower will serve as the point of attachment for the punty rod on which the disc is spun flat.

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Antique illustration of how blower will serve as the point of attachment for the punty rod on which the disc is spun flat. Published in "A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry. Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'encyclopedie, ou Dictionnarie Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers" of Denis Diderot". (Charles Coulston Gillispie, Dover Publications, New York, 1959).

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Size: 5100px × 4159px
Location: United Kingdom
Photo credit: © Les Archives Digitales / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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