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leaflet
Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen.
Europe: West Germany, Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz
1980s
paper
overall: 75 mm x 105 mm
2020.3
ARCHIVAL ITEMS
leaflet
Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen.
Europe: West Germany, Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz
1980s
paper
overall: 75 mm x 105 mm
Leaflet promoting a German optical glass works. Small landscape format, printed in part colour on twenty pages, with soft end papers, the front cover featuring a round aperture. Illustrated with mainly black and white photographs of Schott, Abbe, the Jena factory, the new factory in Mainz, pot melting and casting, sawing, grinding and polishing, testing for striae, checking lens blanks, automatically pressed lenses, general diagram of optical glass types, some delivery forms of optical glass, testing a bubble chamber window, radiation-protection windows for use in hot cells, LASER apparatus, telescope disc and glass block from a tank.
2020.3
Gift of Mr Brian Mitchell, 2010