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I own a copy of the onion skin 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, this being the last edition which had very long signed articles expressing views of opinionated experts. Before this time encyclopedias were published over several years and after this time they had much shorter articles written anonymously as we now expect. It was published in 1910-11, just before WWI and updated with 3 volumes printed just after WWI. The onion skin edition makes each volume much thinner but also harder to scan. I refer to the EB much more often than one might expect because its comments on stuff that hasn't changed are still good and often it has comments on events and places of the previous 100-150 years that would be much harder to find in a modern library. Everything has to be taken with a grain of salt, considering how a British writer would look at the colonies, etc. [A volunteer (wiki) proofed scan of the whole 11th EB is available on the internet with the glass article at GLASS http://53.1911encyclopedia.org/G/GL/GLASS.htm without pictures.]
The article on Glass, actually several articles pushed together, is very good, very complete, and especially useful as it was written just as the entire world of glass was changing with the introduction of mechanical bottle and sheet glass manufacture and the end of hand blown mass production. 2001-01-10
I have just added the article from the 1922 added volumes, considered with the 1911 Eleventh Edition to be the 12th Edition. Instead of separate pages, the whole article is together. EB Glass 1922 2005-09-23
HOW I CLEANED THE SCAN
As mentioned, scanning an onion skin edition can add a lot of garbage. (The
table on page 91 and Fig.15 on page 87 indicate the problems) In cleaning
up the files, I have used the Microsoft FrontPage spell checker. In many cases,
I left the British spellings (colour) intact, but some were changed where I felt
the British usage was very dated or confusing to American readers. Some
changes were made on the basis of logic (tha became the, or that, or than,
depending on context) while others, especially dates, were corrected based
looking in detail at the original document. Normally, names, titles of
documents and foreign words (Latin, German, French) are not proofed too closely.
| Beginning of Articles | EB Glass Page 86 | Clean |
| Overview, Optical Glass | EB Glass Page 87 | Clean |
| Optical Glass | EB Glass Page 88 | V.clean |
| Table 1 | EB Glass Page 89 | Clean |
| Blown Glass, Optical | EB Glass Page 90 | V.good |
| EB Glass Page 91 | SC good | |
| Tube, Table III | EB Glass Page 92 | good to poor |
| Sheet & Crown Glass | EB Glass Page 93 | clean |
| Mechanically Blown Glass | EB Glass Page 94 | |
| Mechanically Pressed Glass | EB Glass Page 95 | Very clean, few details |
| Rolled glass, plate glass | EB Glass Page 96 | Clean |
| Pressed Glass History of Glass Manufacture |
EB Glass Page 97 | Very Clean |
| Egyptian, GraecoRoman | EB Glass Page 98 | Very Clean |
Full page Illustrations |
2/3 original size | |
| Roman | EB Glass Page 99 | Very clean, few details |
| 1st - 4th Century | EB Glass Page 100 | Spellchk, still typos |
| Venetian Glass | EB Glass Page 101 | V.clean scan |
| German, Low Countries, Spain | EB Glass Page 102 | clean |
| History thru 1400's | EB Glass Page 103 | clean |
| English Glass History | EB Glass Page 104 | clean |
| World Hist., Bibliography | EB Glass Page 105 | clean |
| Article from 1922 added volumes | EB Glass 1922 | 98% clean |
2005-02-16 Repair references to file and image names with Upper case letters, that new server objects to. Add links to Plate references. Repair some small scan typos found along the way
