[Newspaper]
Publication: Lewisburg Chronicle and West Branch Farmer
Lewisburg, PA, United States
vol. 7, no. 46, p. 2, col. 2
Important Discovery.
We learn from the Honesdale Democrat that Mr. E. White, of that place has succeeded in constructing a furnace by which glass is manufactured with no other fuel than anthracite coal. The result, adds the Democrat, is so completely satisfactory that Mr. J. M. Brookfield, the proprietor of the glass-works, has discharged all his wood-choppers intending, as soon as the fires are extinguished for the coming season to rebuild his furnaces upon Mr. White's plan. Anthracite coal has never, heretofore been used in any part of the world in the manufacture of glass.
