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2500 BC
 The making of glass began about this time in Mesopotamia.
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1295
 Jacobellus Barovier, founder of a glass-making family, was born. His sons, Antonio and Bartolomeo in 1348 registered as "fioliare" (glassmakers) in Murano, across the lagoon from Venice, Italy. The Barovier firm merged with the Murano-based Toso firm in the 1930s.
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1665
 French finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert founded the Saint Gobain company to replaced imports of Venetian glass with home-made wares.
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1759
 Josiah Wedgwood opened his first factory in Stoke-on-Trent, central England. It began making bone china in the 19th century.
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1765
 La Compagnie des Cristalleries de Baccarat, a glass factory, opened in France.
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1824
 The first company to come out with the paper milk carton was the Toronto East India Company, which developed it in 1824 due to a glass shortage.
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1825
1888		 Sandwich glass, also known as pressed glass, was made by the Boston and Sandwich Glass Works in Sandwich, Mass. They made the original dolphin-based glassware.
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1826
 An American mechanic developed mold-blown glass.
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1826
 Pilkington, a British glass producer, was founded in St. Helens, Lancashire. In 2006 it was bought by Nippon Sheet Glass (NSG).
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1865
 Daniel C. Ripley founded a lamp manufacturing firm in Pittsburgh, Pa. the following year he joined with 5 partners to form Ripley & Co. Ripley was granted a patent in 1868 for a glass oil lamp. The company merged with others in 1891 to form the U.S. Glass Co. of Pittsburgh.
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1871
 A glass plant was built in a Missouri town that was named Crystal City. By 1895 the factory was acquired by Pittsburgh Plate Glass, later PPG Industries, which added a glass factory billed as the largest in the world. In 1990 it was closed and bulldozed, leaving lingering environmental contamination at the 250-acre site.
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1887
 Ford City, Pa., was founded by John B. Ford, head of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. on the shore of the Allegheny River. Later some 47 acres of the factory grounds were fenced off due to contamination from arsenic left behind by decades of industrial glassmaking.
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1892
 The Gill Clay Pot Co. moved from Bellaire, Ohio, to Muncie, Ind., to be near glass companies and natural gas supplies. The company made pots and tanks to hold melting glass. In 1923 a family member opened Muncie Pottery next door.
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1902
 Martin Bach opened the Quezal Art Glass & Decorating Co. in Maspeth, Queens, NY.
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1904 Oct 2
 Clarence Dally (b.1865), glassblower and assistant to Thomas Edison, died following years of suffering from radiodermatitis due to his work with X-rays.
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1921
 The Eureka Art Glass Co., later renamed Blenko glass Co., opened in Milton, West Virginia under William Blenko.
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1928
 Grant Wood, American artist, encountered the German art movement Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), while supervising the production of a stained-glass window he had designed for the Cedar Rapids Veterans Memorial Building.
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1933
 Reuben Haley (b.1872), American glass designer, died.
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1935 Oct 11
 In San Francisco 5 tons of molten glass escaped from a break in a 300-ton furnace at the 15th and Folsom streets plant of Owens-Illinois Co. An emergency pit caught most of the escaping glass.
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1937
 Edvin Ohrstrom (1906-1994), artist and sculptor, and 2 others developed the Ariel technique at Orrefors in Orrefors, Sweden. This technique created a design by trapping air bubbles between two layers of glass. In 1990 Orrefors merged with Kosta Boda AB, which in turn became part of the New Wave Group in 2005.
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1939
 Heinrich Hoffman (b.1875), Paris glass artist, died.
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1962
 Corning Inc. invented an ultra-strong glass. In 1964 it developed a method called “fusion draw” to manufacture what it called “Gorilla glass.” It only found strong commercial use with the development of LCDs for laptop computers and TVs.
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1963
 The Lestoil Co. of Holyoke, Mass., began selling its liquid cleaner in special-edition reproduction glass flasks, which resembled 19th century whiskey flasks. The special edition ended in 1964.
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1973
 Antoine Riboud (1918-2002) merged his glassware company BSN with the dairy business Gervais Danone, creating Danone, the biggest food group in France. The group stopped making glass in 1981.
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1976
 Charles Gibson (d.2006), an ordained minister, founded the Gibson Glass Co. in Milton, W. Va. The company was in business for one year when Gibson returned to the pulpit. He re-opened the business in 1983 and it became best known for cruets.
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1988 Oct 5
 Grandma Prisbrey, born as Thresie (Tressa) Luella Schaefer (1896), died in California. During her life she constructed her bottle village in Simi Valley including 3 bottle structures to house her collection of 17,000 pencils. In 1981 the site was named a California State Historical Landmark and in 1996 was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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1996
 Deli, a Chinese glass firm, was founded.
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2006
 Pilkington, a British world leader in glass production, was bought by Nippon Sheet Glass (NSG).
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2009 Jan 5
 British company Waterford Wedgwood PLC, the maker of classic china and crystal, filed for bankruptcy protection after attempts to restructure the struggling business or find a buyer failed.
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2010 Sep 8
 Michael Lassen (61), English stained-glass artist, died in a hospital after falling from a ladder on Sep 3, while working on a widow at the Durham cathedral.
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