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Glass Factory Many things are made in a glass factory: wine glasses, car glasses and different kinds of glass. Around 1000AD the first eye-glass lens was invented. This was a glass sphere known as a “reading stone”. The sphere was laid on top of writing and letters seen through it were magnified. The first eye-glasses or spectacles were invented in 1284 in Italy. The first glass factory in the Americas was a setup in Jamestown Virginia in 1608. Today’s glass factory is a huge construction costing millions of rand. They have electric furnaces to produce the heat needed to fuse together the raw materials used to make glass. Workers in a glass factory have water coolers that are used throughout the day to keep the workers body temperature down to avoid the risk of suffering from heat stroke. Like all South African glass supply companies West Rand Auto Glass is dependent on the local glass factory to produce the float glass from which products such as windscreens are made. See also:
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