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George Ravenscroft (1632 – 7 June 1683) was an English businessman in the import/export and glass making trades. He is primarily known for his work in...

actor Edward Ravenscroft (c. 1654–1697), English dramatist Edward James Ravenscroft (1816–1890), author of Pinetum Britannicum George Ravenscroft (1632–1683)...

way for the production of English lead crystal glass by George Ravenscroft. George Ravenscroft (1618–1681) was the first to produce clear lead crystal...

dominance of cristallo came to an end. In 1673, English glass merchant George Ravenscroft created a clear glass he called crystalline—but it was not stable...

southeast England that were used as a source of high purity silica by George Ravenscroft, c. 1662, to produce a potash lead glass that was the precursor to...

Venetian tradition was also being produced in England. In about 1675, George Ravenscroft invented lead crystal glass, with cut glass becoming fashionable in...

discovered by George Ravenscroft in 1674, who was the first to produce clear lead crystal glassware on an industrial scale. Ravenscroft had the cultural...

English glass industry, following the invention of lead glass by George Ravenscroft around 1676, and the manufacture of slipware by Thomas Toft. After...

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produced in the country. In Britain, Lead glass was developed by George Ravenscroft c. 1675, which allowed for the production of cheaper lead crystal...

Company of Glass Sellers of London How George Ravenscroft discovered English Lead Crystal Oxford Index - George Ravenscroft The Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers...

Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4983 (subscription or UK public library membership required) The Cecil Family, by George Ravenscroft Dennis...

blurred effect, irregularities, etc.). In 1674, the British inventor George Ravenscroft, wishing to rival Venetian and Bohemian crystal while being less dependent...

no more than swellings of the stem, the term balustroid was used. George Ravenscroft History of glass Dwarf ale glass "Heavy Baluster and Baluster Stem...

called the Hochschnitt ("high cut") style. In the later 17th century George Ravenscroft developed a cheap and reliable lead "crystal" glass with a high refractive...

Cambridge. "History of Parliament". Retrieved 27 September 2011. Dennis, George Ravenscroft (1914). The Cecil Family. Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 123. Retrieved...

making it. Concurrently, advances in glass manufacture in Britain, by George Ravenscroft and others, allowed more robust wine bottle to be made which could...

specialty. England was known for its lead crystal glassware. Englishman George Ravenscroft has been credited with refining the formula for crystal during the...

sections of the furnace, elevated above the heat source. Around 1663, George Ravenscroft developed flint glass, a colourless and translucent glass with many...

Glass and the site on which lead crystal glass was first produced by George Ravenscroft), Stourbridge in the Midlands and Sunderland in the North East. Sunderland...