Sleepy Hollow Glass bullseye demonstration

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SMS_F2014_11 · Structural Materials Selection, Fall 2014 · §6.p1

Historical: untaxed scrap glass over door lintels for light without windows; today: art glass at $55 for a 6-inch square. Pricing inversion (scrap → art).

What I'd planned on doing today is take another industry and just show you that I'm not negative about everything. I want to talk about glass technology. I told you all the bad things about glass — it's brittle, it's not a structural material — but in fact it is a structural material, and it has a history. If you go to the web you can read about Sleepy Hollow Glass Company; they make nice artistic glass. They will actually sell you what's called bullseye glass. Anybody know what bullseye glass is? Yeah — that little thing in the corner, that's right. There's a history of bullseye glass in the United States. Remember "no taxation without representation" type stuff, and the things the British were trying to tax us.