Alastair Pilkington

Sir Alastair Pilkington
OBE FRS
Born
Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington

(1920-01-07)7 January 1920
Calcutta, India
Died5 May 1995(1995-05-05) (aged 75)
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Engineering career
Significant advanceFloat glass process

Sir Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington (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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