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On the left are two of the huge pots which set inside of the furnace. In them glass is melted. On the right is a workman preparing glass for being drawn out into tubes.

This illustration shows how glass tubes are made by drawing the molten glass, as you would pull taffy.

Photographs on this page copyrighted by Brown Bros, N. Y.

This man is shaping and cooling a glass bottle by turning it on a stone table called a "mart." When ready for shipment bottles are placed in frames as shown in this next picture.