Word: porcelains
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...remained unseated for eleven years until the restrictions against Jews were removed. He continued to represent the city until 1874 and finally resigned. Lionel Rothschild filled his house with one of the world's richest collections of Dutch and Flemish paintings, 18th Century French furniture, carvings, crystal, glass, porcelain, cloisonné, tapestries, chandeliers. Last week the contents of the house, even the iron footscrapers and carriage umbrellas, were up for public Auction...
...most difficult harmonics. The quality of the tone is affected too by what the flute is made of. Thirty years ago most flutes were wooden. Nowadays all but five U. S. flautists use instruments of silver or some cheaper metal. Flutes have also been made of bamboo, ivory, jade, porcelain, crystalline glass, rubber, papiermâché, wax and human bones...
Experimentation has revealed that atmospheric humidity is an until now unsuspected cause of inefficiency in porcelain and glass electrical insulators such as are used on high-tension lines. It appears that one of the causes of radio interference is due to the high-voltage "static" discharges over the surface of such insulators...
...collected by the late Gustave Dreyfus, a Frenchman who profited from the Suez Canal only less spectacularly than Mr. Mellon has from his banks, railroads, oil wells and aluminum diggings. Last item listed by Mr. Mellon was the great collection of U. S. historical portraits assembled by the late porcelain dealer. Thomas B. Clarke, and long held by Manhattan's Knoedler & Co. for $1.250,000. Each portrait of the 175 is of and by a character of first national importance and Mr. Mellon's acquisition of them, a fact hitherto not widely known, was of itself...
...produced a $42,468,000 company. Mainly on body business from such motor makers as Ford, Chrysler and Packard, Briggs last year earned $9,266,000. To diversify its manufactures the company has lately developed a line of lightweight stamped iron bathroom fixtures with a porcelain finish called "Brig-steel" which it says is cheaper to ship and install than conventional products...