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Alastair Pilkington

Born

in England, The United Kingdom

January 07, 1920

Died

May 05, 1995

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Pilkington

Genre

Science, Invention, Nonfiction

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Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington (Sir Alastair Pilkington; 7 January 1920 – 5 May 1995) and his associate Kenneth Bickerstaff, both of Great Britain, developed the world's first commercially successful manufacture of high quality flat glass using their float glass process. American inventors had tried several times to achieve an improved and lower-cost process to replace the costly plate glass, but had not succeeded. His breakthrough, in which the molten glass was "floated" over a bath of molten tin and manipulated to achieve the required product thickness, enabled the UK-based Pilkington Glass company to lead the world market for high quality flat glass for many years. Starting in the early 1960s, all the world's leading flat glass manu ...more