Crown Glass

Crown glass is either of two kinds of glass:

  • Crown glass (window) was a type of hand-blown window glass.
  • Crown glass (optics) is a type of optical glass used in lenses.

Famous quotes containing the words crown and/or glass:

    “Give me simplicity, that I may live,
    So live and like, that I may know Thy ways,
    Know them and practise them: then shall I give
    For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “Before the beginning of years
    There came to the making of man
    Time, with a gift of tears;
    Grief, with a glass that ran;”
    —A.C. (Algernon Charles)