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The Melyer family is believed to have continued making glass into the third and fourth generations. If true, glass may have been produced in Manhattan from 1645 to about 1767. [50] Johannes Smedes, [Note 6] another New Amsterdam glassmaker, received a portion of land in 1654 adjacent to what became known locally as "Glass-makers Street". [51]
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 ...
The mechanical innovations, and other innovations, listed below are from an essay published in the December 1920 edition of Scientific American.The essay was titled Modern Glass-Making, and it was written by E. Ward Tillotson, assistant director of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. [20]
Actual glass production started in June 1797, making it the first to produce glass in the United States west of the Allegheny Mountains. [90] The factory was called Pittsburgh Glass Works, and Eichbaum was its superintendent. In 1798, Eichbaum leased the factory, but control returned to O'Hara and Craig in 1800.
Early American molded glass refers to glass functional and decorative objects, such as bottles and dishware, that were manufactured in the United States in the 19th century. The objects were produced by blowing molten glass into a mold, thereby causing the glass to assume the shape and pattern design of the mold.
Glass globes for Benjamin Franklin's electrostatic machines were made by Wistarburg Glass Works. [17] Wistar's factory produced about 15,000 glass bottles per year made in the Waldglas style, which had been a way of making glass in Europe since the Middle Ages. It was an inexpensive traditional method whereby the main materials of wood ash and ...
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 ]
In 1825, Jarves began the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company with its factory in Sandwich, Massachusetts, [4] [5] specializing in blown glassware, mold-blown glass, and machine-pressed glass. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] He built the company into what one writer calls "the most important manufacturer of pressed glass in 19th-century America"; [ 8 ] he stayed with ...