The Fresnel Lens at Bell Rock Light
I was poured in 1841. The sand came from Fontainebleau, the soda ash from Saint-Gobain, the lime from the quarries at Montmorency. The glassmakers at the Chance Brothers works in Birmingham heated the mixture to one thousand five hundred degrees centigrade in a closed pot furnace. The molten glass was poured onto an iron table and rolled to a thickness of twelve millimetres. When it cooled, the...
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