Identifier: crockeryglassjou74newy (find matches)
Title: Crockery & glass journal
Year: 1875 (1870s)
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Subjects: Pottery Glass Glassware
Publisher: New York : G. Whittemore & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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and that its use would soon be abandoned. Theydid not investigate promptly enough. Their disappear-ing custom finally led them to look into it, but it was toolate. Their trade had gone, and they could not adjusttheir methods to the new condition speedily enough tosave themselves. This was an epoch in the business, ifnot in the manufacture. ing was discovered is absolutely unknown. The ancientEgyptians ascribe the invention to Osiris, and Osiris wasa mythological divinity. If a date can be-fixed at all,says a specialist on this subject, it must be about 4,000years before Christ. With the Romans glass makinghad reached an advanced stage of development—indeed,they were supreme in its manufacture—but this knowl-edge almost wholly disappeared from the world whenRoman civilization succumbed to the barbaric tribes ofNorthern Europe. For centuries ancient glass making was a lost art.Then in the Middle Ages it was revived in Venice, whereevery public and private effort was made to maintain
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Phoenix Glass Co , 1 5 Murray St. In 1608, 1621, 1639, 1683, 1754 and 1775, in Virginia,Massachusetts, New York city, Brooklyn, Philadelphiaand New Jersey, early and feeble steps were takenin what has become the great glass industry of theI nited States. The first successful glass factory in thiscountry is said to have been established in Bostonthrough the Massachusetts Legislatures act in 1787 ingranting a 15-year exclusive State monopoly to a com-pany of that city. The next successful venture was inPittsburgh in 1796; and it has been successful here andin this locality ever since. The centre of glass makingin the United States is west of the Alleghenies, largelybecause of the cheapness and plentifulness of fuel, espe-cially natural gas and petroleum. When, where, how and by whom the art of glass mak- absolute secrecy among Venetians as to. the methods ofmanufacture, and prevent knowledge of it from spread-ing to other countries. In 1911 glass making is practically a new art, as bare

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