Glass is now going to war in a big way as a replacement for copper, aluminum, bronze, other scarce metals. Already centrifugal pumps with impellers, plates and other parts of glass are whirring. U.S.

Physicists have long pondered if there’s a way to form glass with minimal entropy, known as “ideal glass.” A team of ...

Quietest weapons in the U.S. arsenal are the plug, snap and ring gauges which make possible mass production by guaranteeing the accuracy that permits interchangeable parts. Plug gauges, for checking ...