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Broadly, modern glass container factories are three-part operations: the "batch house", the "hot end", and the "cold end". The batch house handles the raw materials; the hot end handles the manufacture proper—the forehearth, forming machines, and annealing ovens; and the cold end handles the product-inspection and packaging equipment.
American stained glass artists and manufacturers (2 C, 74 P) C. Corning Inc. (1 C, 32 P) T. Tiffany Studios (18 P) ... General Glass Industries; Guardian Industries; H.
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
Glass company financiers discovered that if a skilled glass worker left their company, glassmaking knowledge left with them. [17] Boston businessman Deming Jarves, who has been called the "father of the American glass industry", joined the industry in 1809 as an investor. [18] Jarves began to keep a book of glass recipes.
The American glass manufacturers also had to compete with English glassmakers. By 1740, English glassmakers produced good quality window glass and some of the best lead crystal glassware available. English trade restrictions caused most of the glassware purchased in America before the American Revolutionary War to be English–made. [ 70 ]
Stained glass artists and manufacturers (3 C, 41 P) Pages in category "Glassmaking companies" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.