Technical Why did they call it Eisen-glass?

Yep, Visqueen was the brand name of an early plastic sheeting. Around here that became the 'kleenex' of the plastic world. No matter what the brand, it was called visqueen.

 

On the AACA site they tell me the old side curtains were made of celluloid. I think the public called them Isinglass because they were used to Isinglass windows in cast iron stoves. I know the old folks around here called both Isinglass. Now it seems neither of them was really made of Isinglass.

 

6:06 AM, my first cup of coffee and I find this thread. There must be something in here that caused me to read the whole thing but I'm damned if I know what it is. I thought maybe the "who invented electricity" question needed answering so I googled Carmen Electra. I need another cup of coffee.

 

h-hee.... Well at least You know you can Drink Guinness with out pissing off the vegan"Power's" above...

 

I wouldn't drink Guiness for any reason whatever. Budweiser gives me the same headache anywhere in the country. Stay with what you know

 

Literal German translation Eisen iron Glas Glass . Iron Glass or literally unbrakeable glass. That is my guess

 

When I was stationed "over there" some guys would stay hunkered down in the barracks and drink Busch Light. Could never understand that. Hefe Weissen was 8 bucks a case, @20 bottles - or 10 liters iirc. Damn good beer out of the tap, especially. I'm no beer snob but it is tasty stuff, and cheaper than the watered down rice stuff.

 

Been in residential construction in the South since 1972 and that’s just what 6 mil plastic sheeting was called back in the day, didn’t matter the brand name. Not so anymore

 

.....Absolutely! There's a reason they keep those Clydesdales around.

 

My dad grew up in Irving, Texas in the 40's and would go exploring what they called "Isinglass Hill" and collect mica chunks. The hill is now located on the University of Dallas campus, where my mom worked. He used to take my daughter up there in the early 2000's to visit mom and they would always go walking, him telling stories, and search for mica.

 

Back in the day, my beer swilling friends and I, would blather, “Why drink a beer, when you can suck on a BUSCH.”

 

Little guy in a German helmet, hiding behind a palm tree, smoking a cigarette: very interesting, but ve invented it!

 

I have an old non-electric, crank-up (Victorola style) phonograph. It sends vibrations from a steel needle in the record's grooves to a fairly large tone head, to the center of a fixed diaphram. I've been told that this diaphragm is made of eisenglass, but I don't know this for a fact.

This disk is showing signs of delaminating but I've never looked into repairing it. It still seems to produce decent sound considering this phonograph uses a pretty crudely designed wooden megaphone built into the cabinet as its amplifier and speaker.

 

WATT?

-rick

 

Interesting Germans? Wait till you read about the Germans on the East side of the wall ordered to invent stuff to create business with other countries and manufacturing jobs at home, so they came up with drinking glasses that never break... they succeeded but no glass factories in the rest of the world were interested in making a product that would put them out of business so they provided every restaurant in East Germany with enough glasses then shut it down and shelved it. Until cell phones needed a touch screen made of practically unbreakable Gorilla Glass... If you visit and dine on the eastern end, you'll still be drinking out of those same glasses....

-rick

 

A (smart-ass) customer walks into a hardware store, and approaches the 29 year old counter person
( man ), and he says, I am here for Mica, and the counter person, says, Micah doesn't work here anymore!

The customer ( smart-ass ) NO, I am here for Mica, and the counter person says, we don't sell Formica here, you will have to go to a place that sells countertops!

Again the customer ( smart-ass ) says, I am here for Mica, the order was called in an hour ago.

At that point, one of the older workers in the hardware store, hears that, and goes back to the will call shelf, and gets the box marked "MICA" and gives it to the (smart-ass) customer, who was replacing the
"MICA" window insert, in his old wood burning stove!

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I found this on the webs.......
"Vintage car laminated glass was made by bonding two layers of glass to a plastic interlayer, typically polyvinyl butyral (PVB), using heat and pressure. This process, known as lamination, created a shatter-resistant material, with the plastic layer holding the glass fragments together if broken.
Here's a more detailed breakdown:

• Float Glass:
  The process started with float glass, made by floating molten glass on a bed of molten tin.
• Cutting and Shaping:
  The float glass was then cut into the desired shape and size for the windshield.
• Lamination:
  • A sheet of PVB plastic was placed between two pieces of glass.
  • This assembly was then placed in an autoclave, a specialized oven that uses heat and pressure to bond the layers.
• Tempering (Sometimes):
  In some cases, the glass was tempered before lamination, which involved heating and then rapidly cooling the glass to increase its strength and resistance to shattering.
• Finishing:
  The laminated glass was then cleaned and prepared for installation in the vehicle.

Lamination significantly improved safety compared to the plain glass used previously, as it prevented the glass from shattering into dangerous shards. This innovation was particularly important for windshields, which are subjected to impacts from rocks and debris."

 

...Great information. Thanks.

 

uncle elmer & aunt sarah after he rear ended the bus