Glass houses

A recent New York Times House and Home article featured the story of a man who lives in a glass house. Every wall in his home is transparent he has no walls to hide behind, not even in the bathroom. Of... 

It was growing as an exotic exhibit in the government glass houses in Amsterdam in Holland. Dutch workers took it from there in 1710 and circled Africa with it, around the Cape of Good Hope, and it was soon growing in Surinam in the Western Hemisphere. Meanwhile it had traveled to the botanical garden hot houses in Paris, and from there it was also taken to French colonial sites in the West—French Guiana and Martinique. Direct introductions were likewise made from France to the Caribbean islands in 1721 and 1741. Coffee was found by these Dutch and French adventurers to be well adapted to the climates and soils of the western tropics. 

No. 1—Glass from Souvlgny. No. 2—From St. Etienne. No. 8—From Eplnac, No. 4—From Sfcvras, near Paris. No,. 9—From an unknown glass-house, tint of French manufacture. 

The plan of a flint-glass-house furnace is shown in the annexed engraving—Fig. 137—where the furnace is represented as containing ten pots, e e. There are as many fines, B B, as pots, one flue being placed between every two pots and immediately abreast of each pot, and... 

The setting of a new pot is a very arduous undertaking, and is ganerally attended with great excitement, and even danger, on account of the intense heat to which the workmen are exposed. It is generally performed at the end of the week when the work of the glass-house is slackened, and all hands are required to be present to assist at the operation. 

Portable deposit/corrosion monitors are typically housed in an enclosure of perhaps 30 in. H x 20 in. W x 15 in. D. Components include inlet flow controller, strainer, adjustable electric heater, (outer) see-through glass housing, (inner) heated specimen tube or block, hot/cold temperature readout, corrosion rack, plus thermal overload, low-flow cut-off, and other safety devices. The specimen tubes or blocks are available in different metals (as are the corrosion coupons) and can usually be replaced in a matter of minutes. Unlike test heat exchangers, the cooling water in this type of monitor flows on the shell side of the specimen tube. 

Cogan, Douglas G. (1988). Stones in a Glass House CFCs and Ozone Depletion. Washington, DC Investor Responsibility Research Center. 

Through the Looking-Glass Looking-Glass House (pp. 7-8)... 

Compounds li, 11, Im, and In failed to show any herbiddal activity when tested in standard herbicide screens in the glass house. The remaining compounds showed similar activity as the natural products dealanylascamycin, la, and ascamycin, lb. They exhibited only weak to moderate activity post-emergence and were usually more active against broad leaf plants than grasses (Table 3). 

Table 3 Herbicidal activity as mean percentage damage against broad leaf weeds and grasses in glass house testing...

Methyl bromide or Bromemethane Fumigant Multipurpose fumigant Controls a wide variety of pests in glass houses and storage areas 11-35... 

Jrog refractories Glass pots, tank blocks, glass-house accessories, muflEles, special sha])( 8 for all kinds of furnaces, zinc retorts, etc. 

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