| The Roman historian Pliny relates the legend of | | | | Mediterranean.Like pipers who played music, skilled |
| Phoenician merchants in 500 BCE discovering | | | | artisans endured intense heat to coax molten |
| molten glass when cooking their meal. | | | | glass into beautiful forms much treasured by the |
| Archaeological remains of river valley civilizations in | | | | world. A true art, each creation reflected its |
| Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley reveal | | | | maker and nation. Venice perfected glass blowing |
| the existence of man-made glass beads dating to | | | | and exported Venetian glass to all corners of the |
| around 3500 BCE. Mesopotamia, Egypt, Mycenae, | | | | world.The process of glass blowing was simplified |
| and China were well known as glassmaking | | | | by the Industrial Revolution, in 1820, when |
| nations. And, details of the process of producing | | | | Bakewell, Page, and Bakewell patented the |
| glass are to be found on stone tablets from the | | | | mechanical pressing of glass. At the end of the |
| library of the Assyrian king Asherbanipal dating to | | | | 19th century an American named Michael Owens |
| 650 BCE.It was in ancient Mesopotamia that the | | | | invented an automatic bottle-blowing machine, and |
| art of glass blowing originated, when an innovator | | | | by the 1920s there were 200 automatic glass |
| working with glass discovered that molten glass | | | | Blowing machines in operation in America. Glass |
| could be blown like a balloon when air is blown | | | | progressed from being handmade to being |
| through a glass tube. This was followed by the | | | | mass-produced.Today glass is mass-produced for |
| use of metal pipes at least two centuries before | | | | everyday uses, while hand-blown glass is |
| the birth of Christ. This revolutionized glass | | | | treasured by collectors and connoisseurs of glass |
| production, and Romans rich and poor began using | | | | as an art form.Glass provides detailed information |
| glass. The Roman Empire established | | | | on Glass, Auto Glass, Stained Glass, Depression |
| glass-manufacturing centers in all parts of the | | | | Glass and more. Glass is affiliated with Bathroom |
| kingdom and Italy, France, Germany, as well as | | | | Mirrors. |
| Switzerland and many regions along the | | | | |