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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
Boston and Sandwich Glass Company; Brockway Glass Company; Bullseye Glass; C. Corelle Brands; Corning Glass Works; Corning Inc. D. Dugan Glass Company; Duncan ...
Libbey-Owens merged with the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company in 1930 to form Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company. [1] In April 1986, LOF sold its glass business and name to the Pilkington Group, a multinational glass manufacturer headquartered in the United Kingdom. The remaining three business units of the company, Aeroquip, Vickers, and Sterling ...
The 173-year-old glass company has proved this concept again and again. The creator of iconic kitchen brands such as Pyrex and CorningWare also developed the glass for telescopes, the earliest TV ...
The works was called "the Glass House Company of New York". [123] 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.
Libbey, Inc., (formerly Libbey Glass Company and New England Glass Company) is a glass production company headquartered in Toledo, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1818 in Cambridge, Massachusetts , as the New England Glass Company, before relocating to Ohio in 1888 and renaming to Libbey Glass Co .
Edward Drummond Libbey (1854-1925) and his wife Florence Scott Libbey (1863-1938), ca. 1901. Edward Drummond Libbey (April 17, 1854 – November 13, 1925) is regarded as the father of the glass industry in Toledo, Ohio, where he opened the Libbey Glass Company (later Libbey, Inc.) in 1888.
The company has restored the faces of Paul Muni and Peter Falk, Jessica Tandy, Joseph Pulitzer and Helen Keller. Its Swiss founder, Peter Gougelmann, traveled throughout Europe fitting custom glass eyes for the needy before bringing his trade to America, where patients were still forced to wear imported stock eyes.