Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1910 — Malleable Glass. [ARTICLE]

Malleable Glass.

Nori, whose book on glass was published at Florence in 1612, says: "In the time of Tiberius was invented a way of making glaiss malleable, a thing afterwards lost and to this day unknown, for 1/ such a thing were now known, without doubt if would be more esteemed for its beauty and Incorruptibility than silver or gold, since from glass there arlseth neither smell nor taste, nor wy other quality.” But, although unknown to the old Italian, the art was practiced In Persia, If we may believe Bailey, whor says that In 1610 Sophl, Emperor of Persia, sent Philip 111. of Spain six .( glasses that were malleable and would not break If hammered. And Blacourt tells that an Inventor having presented a bust of malleable glace to Richelieu, was rewarded for his Ingenuity by perpetual imprisonment.' lest the vested Interests of French glass, workers should be Injured by the new invention.