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Author: Quentin R. Skrabec Jr. Ph.D. Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439618852 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 134
Book Description
The discovery of natural gas around Findlay in 1886 started an industrial rush in northwest Ohio. Within five years, over 100 glass companies had moved into the region for free gas and railroad connections to the western markets. Unfortunately the gas ran out in just a few years, and many glass companies moved on, but those that stayed changed the nature of the glass industry forever. A brilliant inventor, Michael Owens of Libbey Glass automated the glass-making process after 3,000 years of no change. His automated bottle-making machine changed American life with the introduction of the milk bottle, beer bottle, glass jar, baby bottle, and soda bottle. It also eliminated child labor in the glass factories. Owens also automated the production of fl at glass by 1920. By 1930, over 85 percent of the worlds glass was being produced on the machines of Michael Owens, bestowing the title of Glass Capital of the World upon northwest Ohio.
Author: Quentin R. Skrabec Jr. Ph.D. Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439618852 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 134
Book Description
The discovery of natural gas around Findlay in 1886 started an industrial rush in northwest Ohio. Within five years, over 100 glass companies had moved into the region for free gas and railroad connections to the western markets. Unfortunately the gas ran out in just a few years, and many glass companies moved on, but those that stayed changed the nature of the glass industry forever. A brilliant inventor, Michael Owens of Libbey Glass automated the glass-making process after 3,000 years of no change. His automated bottle-making machine changed American life with the introduction of the milk bottle, beer bottle, glass jar, baby bottle, and soda bottle. It also eliminated child labor in the glass factories. Owens also automated the production of fl at glass by 1920. By 1930, over 85 percent of the worlds glass was being produced on the machines of Michael Owens, bestowing the title of Glass Capital of the World upon northwest Ohio.
Author: Don E. Smith Publisher: ISBN: Category : Glass manufacture Languages : en Pages : 19
Book Description
The glass industry began emerging in Northwest Ohio in the 1880s. At one time there were five tableware houses, tow lamp chimneys, five window glass, one bottle and one cathedral and plate glass factory throughout the region. Many were flint glass factories which produced tableware, lamps, bar goods, chimneys, electric light globes, prescription bottles, fruit and battery jars, window glass and ribbed plate.
Author: Barbara L Floyd Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472120646 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 271
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The headline, “Where Glass is King,” emblazoned Toledo newspapers in early 1888, before factories in the Ohio city had even produced their first piece of glass. After years of struggling to find an industrial base, Toledo had attracted Edward Drummond Libbey and his struggling New England Glass Company to the shores of the Maumee River, and many felt Toledo’s potential as “The Future Great City of the World” would at last be realized. The move was successful—though not on the level some boosters envisioned—and since 1888, Toledo glass factories have employed thousands of workers who created the city’s middle class and developed technical innovations that impacted the glass industry worldwide. But as has occurred in other cities dominated by single industries—from Detroit to Pittsburgh to Youngstown—changes to the industry it built have had a devastating impact on Toledo. Today, 45 percent of all glass is manufactured in China. Well-researched yet accessible, this new book explores how the economic, cultural, and social development of the Glass City intertwined with its namesake industry and examines Toledo’s efforts to reinvent itself amidst the Midwest’s declining manufacturing sector.
Author: Quentin R. Skrabec Jr. Ph.D.
Author: Quentin R. Skrabec Jr. Ph.D.
Author: Barbara L Floyd
Author: Libbey Glass Company (Toledo, Ohio)
Author: Joseph Terry
Author: Toledo Museum of Art
Author: Libbey Glass Company
Author: Don E. Smith
Author: Tedd Long
Author: Barbara L Floyd
Author: Libbey Glass Co