NEW USE FOR GLASS
An Austrian inventor claims to have found a new use for glass. Bv heating it up to 1400 degrees and cooling it in a bath of oil at 300 degrees," he is able, he says, to produce glass' seven times more elastic than steel. With this, he declares, razor blades can be manufactured at two shillings a thousand, over a month's supply for a penny, using a new blade every on v. it remains to be seen if the new blade is likely to displace the old.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22687, 27 March 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)
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91NEW USE FOR GLASS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22687, 27 March 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)
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