Sir Lionel Alexander Bethune PilkingtonOBE FRS[1] (7 January 1920 – 5 May 1995), known as Sir Alastair Pilkington, was a British engineer and businessman who invented and perfected the float glass process for commercial manufacturing of plate glass.
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