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Frenchman, Louis Lucas de Nehou, in 1688, in conjunction with Abraham Thevart, succeeded in perfecting the process of casting plate-glass. Mirror plates prior to the invention had been made from blown "sheet" glass, and were consequently very limited in size. De Nehou's process of rolling molten
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