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Two large stained-glass windows installed by Hartford City Glass Company's Belgian glass workers 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
Libbey–Owens Sheet Glass Company Toledo Ohio 1916 Michael Joseph Owens: Company formed by Edward Libbey and former Hobbs employee Michael Owens to market window glass made by machine developed by Owens and Irving Wightman Colburn. [23] 15: Nickel Plate Glass Company: Fostoria Ohio 1888 Benjamin M. Hildreth, James B. Russell
Nine of those factories made flint glass (crystal). The remaining factories made products such as bottles and window glass. [62] [Note 4] The best known Pittsburgh glass company was Bakewell, Pears and Company. The company was known for its crystal, including cut and engraved glassware. It also made window glass, bottles, and lamps. [64]
German workers were used, and production of window glass is believed to have begun in 1786. [108] De Neufville was a poor financial manager, and the glass works was abandoned by 1790. [109] James Caldwell and associates renovated the abandoned factory in 1792 and began producing window glass. He called his factory the Albany Glass House. [110]
The Hauser Art Glass Company, another long-standing American stained glass studio, was founded in 1946 by James E. Hauser in Winona, Minnesota. It was originally opened as a repair and restoration studio, focused on serving small, remote churches, after Hauser recognized an opportunity to aid many American churches whose stained glass windows ...
The Colburn process, along with the European Fourcault process developed separately at the same time, changed the way window glass was made. [102] At one time Owens was part of a group of five men that controlled the Toledo Glass Company, the Owens Bottle Company, and Libbey–Owens Sheet Company—and indirectly controlled Libbey Glass Company ...