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...only item that the studio has even purchased ready-made is a small electric kiln. Everything else has been either built, borrowed, or found. Rippe has built all seven potter's wheels--four at his own expense--and a small raku kiln for special firings. Instructors and students have built shelving, work tables, plaster tables, and all other equipment for the studio...
...afterburner system is far cheaper than conventional antismell devices: $60,000 for the S.D. Warren installation, says a company spokesman, v. about $1 million to $1.5 million for a rotary kiln of the same operating capacity. It also works...
Engineers foresee even more esoteric uses. They have already designed a hover kiln, in which pottery is suspended over a moving conveyor belt by the hot gases used to bake it. And they are attempting to perfect a hover bed for badly burned patients who would actually lie on a thin film of air, thus avoiding painful contact with the bed sheets and allowing healing on all sides...
Before Wedgwood, those Englishmen who could not eat off gold plates ate off pewter and wooden trenchers. Josiah changed all that. At age nine, he had started "throwing," or molding clay, at his brother's pottery, opened his own kiln 20 years later, and plunged into the relentless experimentation that marked him as one of the most liberal and scientific minds of the Age of Enlightenment. This is the 200th anniversary of the year when his cream-colored earthenware so impressed Queen Charlotte I that she made Wedgwood her court potter and ordered that pearly pottery be called Queen...
...though they never appear, may that hot kiln...