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