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Glass and ophthalmic optics.
Print
Author/Artist:
Corning France. Département optique-lunetterie.
Publisher:
Fontainebleau-Avon, France : Corning France, 1988.
Description:
71 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Other Authors:
Corning Incorporated.
Format of Material:
Books
Microform
Subjects:
Lenses.
Eyeglasses.
Optical glass.
Technology CMG
Glass Properties. YKM
Bib ID:
65467
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Location:
Secured Stacks
Call Number:
TP862.O6.C81 1988
Location:
Microforms
Call Number:
F-17642
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Object/Material Note
Related Objects (6)
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Notes:
Translated from the French by Peter Horsey.
Contents:
Mankind, the arts and glass --
Glass: structure and properties --
Glass in industry and science --
Corning France --
The glass-making industry --
Raw glass for spectacle lenses --
The physical properties of glasses --
Main glass types used in ophthalmic optics --
Modern manufacturing techniques --
The machining of glass blanks for spectacles --
Fused multifocal lenses --
Anti-reflective and colouration treatments --
Treatments for improving impact resistance --
The future of glass for ophthalmic optics --
Glossary of terms --
Major glass collections open to the general public.
Object/Material Note
Object/Material Note:
Includes CMoG objects: 85.1.6, p. 4 -- 79.1.4, p. 4 -- 51.3.119, p. 6 -- 59.3.20, p. 6 -- 60.3.4, p. 6 -- 80.3.59, p. 8.
Related Objects (6)
Goblet
Date:
about 1650
Accession Number:
59.3.20
La Libellule (The Dragonfly)
Artist:
Galle, Emile
Date:
1903
Accession Number:
80.3.59
Pitcher
Date:
25-125
Accession Number:
85.1.6
Portrait of King Amenhotep II (?)
Date:
1426-1400 BCE
Accession Number:
79.1.4
Reichsadler Humpen
Date:
1574
Accession Number:
60.3.4
Wineglass (vetro a retortoli)
Date:
about 1550-1610
Accession Number:
51.3.119