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...Though his scheme was eventually shelved as too costly, it got Hajek - who today is head of the Center of Microwave Technology in Prague - thinking about using microwaves to melt glass for his country's renowned band of crystal producers. The system he devised, and which he refers to as the Microwave Art Glass Furnace, can now save glassmakers up to 50% in energy costs and spares the environment the nasty emissions produced by gas-fired furnaces...
...model will be available for sale in September. With patents granted or pending in some 60 countries, thousands of years after man first learned how to combine soda from ashes, lime from seashells and silica from beach sand to form glass, Hajek is ready to set the world of crystal manufacture on fire with his microwave furnace...
GEORG RIEDEL Austrian crystal glassmaker...
...clarity, perfect balance in the hand. What's not so easy, for the uninitiated, is to identify the dozens of shapes and sizes that have made Riedel glasses the uncontested favorite of winemakers and wine lovers around the world. Riedel's Sommelier collection, for instance, includes 33 different lead-crystal glasses, each one designed for a specific type of wine or grape variety...
...generations, to 17th century Bohemia. The present-day design concept is basic Bauhaus: form follows function, in this case a form that brings out the best in its contents and can even help disguise a fault or two. The volume and shape of the bowl, the thickness of the crystal and the rim's outward flare or inward curve and finish all help determine which of a wine's several layers of aromas develops first or most fully. It was Claus Riedel, designer and ninth-generation owner of the family firm, who first noted that the size and shape...