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Subject: Re: [Leica] Uh.... earth to lawyers....
From: Javier Perez <summarex@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 23:23:50 -0500
References: <001901c1d2e6$91202ac0$44415640@telconet.net>

I think words like Laboratory, research, are more
prestige terms than anything else. By definition
a Lab doesn't produce anything that's not experimental.
The minute it does it becomes a factory even if QTY is miniscule.
Why those Leitz bastards! They've prostituted the laboratory!
Javier


Duane Birkey wrote:
> 
> I'm not a lawyer..... but reading in between the quotes I find the phrase
> "The Leica Glass Laboratory" twice....
> 
> It would appear to me that Leica USA refers to it as being a laboratory and
> not a factory...  Outside the quotes Seth uses factory.....  So... I don't
> know if that is Seth's words or from other references in the article.
> Sounds like a topic for the next LHSA convention.  Didn't Erwin write about
> this?????
> 
> With some 50,000 experimental melts....  and the "up to 10 metric tons in a
> single year"   we really don't know a whole lot..... as we don't know how
> much glass was made in each of the 50,000 experimental melts... For all we
> know they had one year where the scientists went overboard in their
> experiments.... and then produced 100 pounds other years.
> 
> And this doesn't say anything about mass production of glass....  merely
> emphasizes the "The Leica Glass Laboratory" creation of 35 new glass
> formulas that made most of Leica's modern lenses possible.
> 
> But I'm not lawyer.
> 
> Duane
> 
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> *************************************************
> Seth wrote:
> 
> Here it is, direct from the glasses' mouth, Fall 2001 issue of Leicaview,
> published by Leica USA, adapted in turn from an interview with Norbert
> Meinert, last manager of the Leitz Glass Factory:
> 
> "The Leitz Glass Laboratory ....operated until 1989......Overall, the Leitz
> Glass Laboratory developed 35 new glasses from an estimated 50,000
> experimental melts.....Without the laboratory, in fact, most of the modern
> lenses of the period 1949 to 1989 would not have been possible. Because of
> its work, the company produced up to 10 metric tons of glass a year, partly
> because of close communication between glass researchers and lens designers.
> Other large glass manufacturers were often behind Leita/Leica because
> optical
> glass is of only minor importance to them...."
> 
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