| The Roman historian Pliny relates the
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| | and many regions along the
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| legend of Phoenician merchants in 500 BCE
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| | Mediterranean.Like pipers who played
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| discovering molten glass when cooking
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| | music, skilled artisans endured intense
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| their meal. Archaeological remains of
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| | heat to coax molten glass into beautiful
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| river valley civilizations in
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| | forms much treasured by the world. A true
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| Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley
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| | art, each creation reflected its maker
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| reveal the existence of man-made glass
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| | and nation. Venice perfected glass
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| beads dating to around 3500 BCE.
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| | blowing and exported Venetian glass to
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| Mesopotamia, Egypt, Mycenae, and China
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| | all corners of the world.The process of
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| were well known as glassmaking nations.
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| | glass blowing was simplified by the
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| And, details of the process of producing
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| | Industrial Revolution, in 1820, when
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| glass are to be found on stone tablets
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| | Bakewell, Page, and Bakewell patented the
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| from the library of the Assyrian king
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| | mechanical pressing of glass. At the end
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| Asherbanipal dating to 650 BCE.It was in
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| | of the 19th century an American named
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| ancient Mesopotamia that the art of glass
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| | Michael Owens invented an automatic
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| blowing originated, when an innovator
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| | bottle-blowing machine, and by the 1920s
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| working with glass discovered that molten
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| | there were 200 automatic glass Blowing
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| glass could be blown like a balloon when
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| | machines in operation in America. Glass
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| air is blown through a glass tube. This
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| | progressed from being handmade to being
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| was followed by the use of metal pipes at
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| | mass-produced.Today glass is
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| least two centuries before the birth of
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| | mass-produced for everyday uses, while
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| Christ. This revolutionized glass
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| | hand-blown glass is treasured by
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| production, and Romans rich and poor
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| | collectors and connoisseurs of glass as
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