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Title: A Tribute to Benjamin Chew Tilghman
Author: H.J. Plaster
Source: Conf Proc: ICSP-5, (p. 2-9)
Publication year 1993
Document number: 1993055
Number of pages: 7
Abstract:
It may have been a theory, a bare idea an insight - or just an inspiration. Whatever it was, perhaps just a shot in the dark, it set off what was to become one of the most
intriguing industries in the world. As it is often the case, myths grow up as happened in this case. It was said that B.C. Tilghman, when a General in the army, had seen
the effect of wind blown sand upon glass windows, in the desert. The sand has etched the glass where unprotected and revealed the contrast against parts that were covered
by steel mesh. The story had been told over such a long period of time that it has become widely accepted. When we look at the facts there is some basis for the story.
It is interesting to read the recording in the National Cyclopeadia of American Biography: Benjamin Chew Tilghman was born Philabelphia on October 26th 1821, the third
childof Benjamin and Anne Marie, His father was descended from Richard Tilghman, a surgeon in the British Navy, under Admiral Blake, who having sighned the petition that
justice be done to Charles Stuart, was flouted as regicide by the Royalists and just before Charles II came to the throne, emigrated to Lord Baltmore colony in Maryland.
Here he obtained lands on the Charles River and built has home. His descendants have been prominent at the Bar and jurists for generations.
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