Falcon Glassworks, Blackfriars Size:XS: 25 x 20cm his head turned in a

his head turned in a quarter profile

with figures watching below

31st December 1993

Richard and John E

Plate I from Physico-mechanical experiments on various subjects

Falcon Glassworks, Blackfriars Size:XS: 25 x 20cm his head turned in aView of a glass works furnace in operation with glassworkers shaping and blowing molten glass. The view shows a Stourbridge brick dome and is based upon Apsley Pellatt & Company's Falcon Glassworks at Holland Street, Blackfriars, London. The scientist Michael Faraday FRS (1791 1867) used the factory to aid in his researches into optical glass during the 1830s. Figure from page 56 of the book Curiosities of glass making with details of the processes