With the collapse of the Venetian Republic in 1797, the Murano glassworks fell into decline. |
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Thus, it seems that mirror glass was silvered not only at glassworks but at looking-glass makers' shops as well. |
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It had several breweries and a flint glassworks in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
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In 1608, early attempts were made at breaking the Continental hold on glassmaking through the creation of a glassworks. |
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Children employed at glassworks were regularly burned and blinded, and those working at potteries were vulnerable to poisonous clay dust. |
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They were the only glassworks capable of fulfilling such a large order and had to bring in labour from France to meet it in time. |
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The founder of this company was one Wilhelm Kralik who, by the time of his death in 1877, had acquired seven glassworks operating together as Meyr's Neffe. |
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The subject of mystery novelist Donna Leon's Through a Glass, Darkly is the investigation of a crime in a Venetian glassworks on the island of Murano. |
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Recycled Glassworks goes beyond bottles to create dishware out of quarter-inch plate glass from discarded windows. |
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It then headed north in February to record, for the second year, at The Glassworks in Derry. |
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In 1870 Chance Brothers took over the failing Nailsea Glassworks but problems with coal supply lead to the closure of that business. |
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