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Sir Alastair Pilkington

(7 Jan 1920 - 5 May 1995)

British industrialist and inventor who created the float glass process to manufacture flat glass more economically than the former plate glass method.

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Science Quotes by Sir Alastair Pilkington (1)

Furious activity is no substitute for analytical thought.

— Sir Alastair Pilkington

Quoted in New Scientist (1972), 55, 429.

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