GLASS

Joseph . b. 1792; invented the chimney-sweeping machine now in use for which he received a silver medal and prize of £200 about 1828; author of Chimney-sweeping described 1834. d. Brixton, London 29 Dec. 1867. GLASS, Sir Richard Atwood ( eld. son of Francis Gla of Bradford, Wilts. ) b. Bradford 3 July 1820; established with Kuper a wire-rope manufactory; introduced use of twisted iron wires in Dover and Calais cable as a protecting medium for submarine telegraphs 1852; made a length of 1250 miles of the Atlantic cable of 1858 which failed; partner in firm of Gla , Elliot and Co., Green wich, firm was eventually absorbed in the Telegraph construction and maintenance co., managing director; knighted by patent 26 Nov. 1866; chairman of Anglo-American Telegraph company; M.P. for Bewdley 1868–69 when unseated on petition; A.I.C.E. 4 May 1858. d. Moorlands, Bitterne, Southampton 22 Dec. 1873. I.L.N. xlix , 545, 558 (1866), portrait .