Word: glasses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent visit to the workshop of the famous lens makers, Alvin Clark & Sons, Cambridgeport, furnishes some interesting facts concerning the objective for the great telescope of the Lick Observatory in California. It being impossible to get the glasses cast satisfactorily in this country, the Clarks sent to Paris after them soon after receiving the order from the trustees of the Observatory. Considerable time was spent before the first glass, the flint, was successfully cast, and this did not reach Mr. Clark until about three years ago. A very much longer delay accompanied the casting of the crown glass, which...
...customers will always find a ready appreciation of his efforts. We have at last the ideal realized in Mr. Beckhard's palatial store under the extension of Parker's on Tremont Street. The most refined taste has been expended in the presentation of his business. Mosaics and cut-glass stained windows and smiling Hebes here form the rule. Especial attention has been paid to render the store attractive to young men, and every student who visits it cannot fail to feel that college men have still an attractive renumerative avenue open to them in business...
Several panes of glass were blown out of the gymnasium yesterday by the wind...
...beginning of the microscope of to-day is traceable to the small, single lens instrument of the sixteenth century, called at the time Vita pulicaria, or flea-glass, because by its aid the true beauty of the flea, in outline and detail, was first brought clearly before the public eye. Aside from the great advantage accruing to mankind from a just appreciation of the flea, the learned men of the time declared that, with this wonderful machine, they had discovered many new monsters; and one savant affirmed that he had seen the devil himself...
...that the action of many supernatural forces would be discovered by the powerful eye of the microscope; and the microscopist of the last century was regarded, by his servants and others, as somehow in league with that devil, whose discovery was due to the savant and the humble "flea glass" of the century before...