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Ishwar Das Varshnei
Ishwar Das Varshney (died 1948) was the father of the glass industry in India. Early life and education Shri Ishwar Das Varshnei was born in Aligarh and was the son of Lala Jagannath Prasad and grandson of Lala Gabdamal, famous cloth merchants in Sikandra Rao. Shri Ishwar Das Varshnei was the father of Glass Industry in India and was one of those to whom the establishment and successful working of blown ware, pressed ware and a many sheet glass factories in India can to be described. He was the first President of the Indian Ceramic Society. He was born at Aligarh in 1879,and after getting his earlier education at the M. A. 0. College,Aligarh, he proceeded to Japan in 1901 to study sugar technology at Koto Koyo Gakko, Tokio. But he subsequently gave up his sugar training in favour of glass industry, simply to meet the challenge of one Mr. Wagley who had written in the 'Indian People" that glass industry was impossible in India. Within the next year and a half he finished his cour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glass
Glass is a non-crystalline, often transparent, amorphous solid that has widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optics. Glass is most often formed by rapid cooling (quenching) of the molten form; some glasses such as volcanic glass are naturally occurring. The most familiar, and historically the oldest, types of manufactured glass are "silicate glasses" based on the chemical compound silica (silicon dioxide, or quartz), the primary constituent of sand. Soda–lime glass, containing around 70% silica, accounts for around 90% of manufactured glass. The term ''glass'', in popular usage, is often used to refer only to this type of material, although silica-free glasses often have desirable properties for applications in modern communications technology. Some objects, such as drinking glasses and eyeglasses, are so commonly made of silicate-based glass that they are simply called by the name of the material. Despite bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
