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• GLASS — Earliest Times The earliest manufacture of glass does not antedate the late third millennium B.C.E., when the first glass beads were made in Mesopotamia and Egypt. The invention of glass vessel making dates to the mid second millennium B.C.E.,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Glass harmonica — The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, hydrocrystalophone, or simply armonica (derived from armonia , the Italian word for harmony), is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to …   Wikipedia

• Glass casting — is the process by which cast glass objects, either functional or artistic, are produced by allowing molten glass to solidify in a mould (a process called casting). This technique has been used since the Egyptian period. Modern cast glass is… …   Wikipedia

• Vessels For Holy Oils —     Vessels for Holy Oils     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Vessels for Holy Oils     In Christian antiquity there existed an important category of vessels used as receptacles for holy oil. These were the ampullae or pittacia, which varied greatly in …   Catholic encyclopedia

• GLASS —    Glass results from the heating of a mixture of sand, lime, and sodium carbonate to a very high temperature. When different materials are added to the sand, glass can become transparent, translucent, or colored. While the origins of glass are… …   Historical Dictionary of Architecture

• Glass — This article is about the material. For other uses, see Glass (disambiguation). Moldavite, a natural glass formed by meteorite impact, from Besednice, Bohemia …   Wikipedia

• Glass-bottom boat — A glass bottom boat is a boat with sections of glass (or other suitable transparent material) below the waterline allowing passengers to observe the underwater environment from within the boat. The view through the glass bottom is better than… …   Wikipedia

• Glass —    A material produced in Egypt beginning in the New Kingdom. The earliest dated vessel is belongs to the reign of Thutmose III, and he may have imported glassmakers from Syria after his conquests. Glass was used for the production of inlays,… …   Ancient Egypt

• Anglo-Saxon glass — has been found across England during archaeological excavations of both settlement and cemetery sites. Glass in the Anglo Saxon period was used in the manufacture of a range of objects including vessels, beads, windows and was even used in… …   Wikipedia

• Roman glass — objects have been recovered across the Roman Empire in domestic, industrial and funerary contexts. Glass was used primarily for the production of vessels, although mosaic tiles and window glass were also produced. Roman glass production developed …   Wikipedia

• Islamic glass — Egyptian mosque lamp, 1360. The influence of the Islamic world to the history of glass is reflected by its distribution around the world, from Europe to China, and from Russia to East Africa. Islamic glass developed a unique expression that was… …   Wikipedia