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The history of glass-making dates back to at least 3,600 years ago in Mesopotamia. However, most writers claim that they may have been producing copies of glass objects from Egypt. [1] Other archaeological evidence suggests that the first true glass was made in coastal north Syria, Mesopotamia or Egypt. [2]
Barge glass works: Jacob Barge began producing glass in 1760 in the Province of Pennsylvania. [116] The works was located in Bucks County close to Philadelphia. Archeological evidence indicates that window glass was made using the cylinder method. Various types of bottles were also made. The glass works appears to have operated through 1784. [117]
Glass was not pressed in the United States until the 1820s. [8] Until the 20th century, window glass production involved blowing a cylinder and flattening it. [9] Two major methods to make window glass, the crown method and the cylinder method, were used until the process was changed much later in the 1920s. [10]
Rolled plate is a type of industrially produced glass. It was invented and patented by James Hartley circa 1847. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Rolled-plate glass is used architecturally ; in the mid-19th century, uses included roofing railway stations and greenhouses.
The glass typically used for these products is now called peachblow glass (not peachbloom), although the original product names differed. [78] Among the rivals to Hobbs, Brockunier, and Company that made peachblow glass were New England Glass Company (Wild Rose), Thomas Webb and Sons (Peach Glass), and Stevens and Williams (Peach Bloom). [79]
Mechanical pressing of glass reduced the time and labor necessary to make glass products, which lowered costs and made glass products available to more of the public. [32] An 1884 U.S. government report considered mechanical pressing and a new formula for glass to be the two great advances in American glassmaking during the 19th century. [25]
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The history of Bohemian glass started with the abundant natural resources found in the countryside. Bohemian glass-workers discovered potash combined with chalk created a clear colourless glass that was more stable than glass from Italy. In the 16th century the term Bohemian crystal was used for the first time to distinguish its qualities from ...