Talk:Float glass

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"Float glass became a goal after the American Civil War and was finally developed in separate processes about the time of World War I" - No. It was invented by Sit Alaister Pilkington in the 1950s.


Glass factory website www.cardinalcorp.com

The article states that iron oxide is used in the production of float glass but it does not specify which kind or if it does not matter. It might be helpful to include that.

Valerie 21:46, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

I would like to write an article on the actual float bath and float bath process, eventually including the melting furnace, bath, lear, cutting and packing, batch plant, mixing station, etc. I am new to Wiki, as a contributor; is this something to be a separate article? I fear adding a reasonable description of the float process would take up a greater amount of space than the current article on float glass it’s self.


--Horseatingweeds 02:09, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cooling lehr

Need we go beyond http://www.google.com/search?q=cooling+lehr in establishing a definition for lehr? For that matter, I like what pops up at http://www.answers.com/lehr . But no matter how you slice it, it slows down the reading to have search separately on an unfamiliar term.

--C-U RPCV 22:18, 16 May 2007 (UTC) It does not seem to be possible to edit higher on the talk page. Now that tin costs several thousand dollars per ton, I suspect, new float glass factories are rarely being built. Other methods of making glass need to detailed in this or separate articles. Ccpoodle 03:26, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] US' inferior process

I removed this sentence from the History section:

This inferior process continued to be used in the US for some time after the UK invented float glass manufacture.

Because

  • it seems to just exist to make a jab at the US
  • the UK didn't invent a glass manufacture (a (group of) individuals did), which further makes this seem like a pointless attempt to glorify the UK
  • it doesn't say anything useful (even if the US started using float glass later, it doesn't quantify that, rather it just says "some time")

If anyone can revert it back into something useful, by all means...99.241.176.150 (talk) 23:48, 4 December 2007 (UTC)