discovery of blown glass (around 100 B.C.)
The Syrians discovered the possibility of inflating a blob of glass placed on the tip of a hollow pipe. This discovery multiplied the applications of glass. Suddenly it was possible to produce larger vessels, for instance bottles, drinking glasses and even urns made of glass.
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- polished plate glass is produced for the first time (around 2100 B.C.)
- stone of the kind that flows (around 1350 B.C.)
- the oldest known glass recipes (around 650 B.C.)
- discovery of blown glass (around 100 B.C.)
- the romans employ glass windows (around 50 A.D.)
- description of glass windows in churches (300 A.D.)
- the beginnings of the Venetian glass industry (900 A.D.)
- glass industry north of the Alps takes off (since 1100 A.D.)
- glass windows in houses (since 1180 A.D.)
- Philippe Caqueray produces large crown glass (1330)
- polished plate glass is produced for the first time (1685)
- industrial soda is produced by Nicolas Leblanc (1775)
- opening of the Crystal Palace in London (1851)
- machine drawn cylinder glass (after 1900)
- drawn glass (after 1915)
- continuous rolled plate glass (since 1918)
- float glass (since 1952)