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A quick search on the term "glass" led us to several possible Yahoo! categories. We narrowed the choices down to Industrial Supplies > Materials > Glass and Visual Arts > Glass, and decided to start with the latter. After a few clicks, we found Glass Works, which bills itself as "the story of glass and glass-making in Canada." We figured that glass-making in Canada probably isn't all that different from glass-making in other parts of the world, so we investigated further. Happily,
Glass Works provides a nicely illustrated page on Making Glass that sketches the history of glass, explains the techniques used to create round containers and flat panes, and offers a recipe for 2,000 pounds of amber glass. (Hint: You'll need a lot of sand.) We read several of the other Glass Works pages, then decided to keep searching for additional information. We revised our original search to include the word "museum" and studied the results. There were four separate glass museums listed, but we focused our attention on the Corning Museum of Glass. Perusing the material on the Corning site, we
found dozens of stunning images of classic and contemporary art glass, but little in the way of explanation. That is, until we stumbled onto A Resource for Glass, more than 30 different articles on the history, science, and art of glass-making. Check out Natural/Volcanic Glass, Types of Glass, and Modern Mass Production, just to name a few.
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