With the collapse of the Venetian Republic in 1797, the Murano glassworks fell into decline. |
Thus, it seems that mirror glass was silvered not only at glassworks but at looking-glass makers' shops as well. |
Like Mons, Charleroi is a place of coal mines, iron foundries, and glassworks. |
Their report upon the Venetian glassworks was to the effect that France knew more about the matter than Venice. |
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. |
It had several breweries and a flint glassworks in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |