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-The1665 Letters Patent granted by France’s King Louis XIV for the manufacture of mirror glass, in a move to exclude competing Venitian glass makers from supplying Royal and Parisian customers.
And today...
- Dynamically tinted glass, and the Saint-Gobin patent EP0831360, titled Electrochemical device, contending for the 2015 EPO Inventor Awards, and arising in a long tradition of glass making, connected to the patented Saint–Gobain 17th century workshop that produced mirror glass for King Louis XIV’s Palace of Versailles....
References
Philip Glass http://www.philipglass.com/
Glassworks
http://www.philipglass.com/music/recordings/glassworks.php
Saint-Gobain
350 – From 1665 to 2015 – The Exhibition
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