 | The art of melting and forming glass into flat and decorative shapes has been around for thousands of years… |
 | In the production of flat glass (where, as explained earlier, molten glass had previously been poured onto large tables then rolled flat into “plates”, cooled, ground and polished before being turned over and given the same treatment on the other surface)… |
 | The float process developed after the Second World War by Britain's Pilkington Brothers Ltd., and introduced in 1959, combined the brilliant finish of sheet glass with the optical qualities of plate glass… |
