Engineering:Glass cone
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Short description: Historical glass production facilities in the United Kingdom
A glass cone is a glass production structure historically unique to the United Kingdom . A glass cone had a large central furnace, a circular platform where the glassblowers worked, and smaller furnaces around its wall to ensure the glass did not cool too quickly.[1][2]
There are four surviving glass cones:
- Catcliffe Glass Cone, South Yorkshire
- Lemington Glass Works, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Northern Glass Cone, Alloa Glass Works, a Scottish scheduled monument,[3]
- Red House Cone in Wordsley, granted listed building status in 1966[4]
See also
- Bottle oven, a bottle-shaped kiln typical of Stoke-on-Trent
References
- ↑ Buchanan, Angus (4 July 1974). "Industrial heritage: British glass". New Scientist (London: New Science Publications) 63 (904): 42. https://books.google.com/books?id=HoZdcomupUQC&q=%22Glass+Cone%22+Alloa&pg=PA42. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
- ↑ Pearson, Lynn (2016). Victorian and Edwardian British Industrial Architecture. Crowood Press. pp. 128–130. ISBN 978-1-78500-189-5. OCLC 959428302.
- ↑ Historic Environment Scotland. "Alloa Glass Works,glass cone (SM3746)". http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM3746. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ↑ Historic England. "Glass Cone at Stuart and Sons Red House Glassworks (1076007)". National Heritage List for England. https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1076007. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
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