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  2. History of glass - Wikipedia

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    Evidence of glass during the chalcolithic has been found in Hastinapur, India. [19] The earliest glass item from the Indus Valley civilization is a brown glass bead found at Harappa, dating to 1700 BCE. This makes it the earliest evidence of glass in South Asia. [3] [20] Glass discovered from later sites dating from 600 to 300 BCE displays ...

  3. Early glassmaking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The site of the Jamestown glass works was described by Smith and mentioned by writer William Strachey. [29] Ruins were discovered in 1931, leading to the belief that the Jamestown glass works was located about one mile (1.6 km) from Jamestown at a place now known as Glass House Point. [30]

  4. 19th century glassmaking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The National Glass Company controlled 19 glass companies, which meant it controlled about 75 percent of the glass tableware market in the United States. [106] The American Window Glass Company trust was created in 1898, and it had over half of the nation's window glassmaking capacity in part because it consisted of many of the large works that ...

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  6. La Belle (ship) - Wikipedia

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    The wreckage of La Belle lay forgotten until it was discovered by a team of state archaeologists in 1995. The discovery of La Salle's flagship was regarded as one of the most important archaeological finds of the century in Texas, and a major excavation was launched by the state of Texas that, over a period of about a year, recovered the entire ...

  7. The 300-plus-year-old glass onion bottles were discovered from the 1715 Treasure ... the Pensacola Museum of History and McLarty Treasure Museum in Sebastian, Ard said. ... 4 injured in Texas as ...

  8. 18th century glassmaking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Glass House Company of New York was located on the Hudson River on land that included the Glass House Farm and became known as New Found Land. [124] Newspaper advertising indicates that the works was producing by October 1754, and bottles were the main products. The glass works failed some time before 1762. [125]

  9. List of defunct glassmaking companies - Wikipedia

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    A New England Glass Company ewer, 1840–1860 A Novelty Glass Company advertisement in 1891 An electrical insulator made by Whitall Tatum Company, circa 1922. Alexander Gibbs; An Túr Gloine