Who invented glass?

The world's first glass makers were the ancient Egyptians. Glass has been around and used in human life for more than 4,000 years, and small glass beads have been unearthed from 4,000 years ago in Mesopotamia and the ruins of Ancient Egypt.?

Glass is brittle but very durable, and many fragments have been found in early cultural sites. Because glass can be formed or molded into any shape and is inherently sterile, it is commonly used as containers, including dishes, cups, test tubes, and vases, and is especially inexpensive for mass production. Hard glass is also often used as paperweights and marbles. If the glass is embedded in organic plastics, it is an important reinforcing material in composite glass fibers.

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It is believed that humans have used natural volcanic glass since the Stone Age. The use of glass for utensils was documented in ancient Egypt around the second millennium BC. In 200 BC, Babylon invented the method of glass blowing control of glass, and then this method was introduced to Rome, Europe in the first century AD around the Roman Portland vase that is a glass relief works.

To the eleventh century, Germany invented the manufacture of flat glass technology. The glass was first blown into a ball and then made into a cylinder. The glass was cut while still hot and then flattened. This technique was further improved in Venice in the thirteenth century. The center of glassmaking in Europe in the fourteenth century was Venice, and many tableware and utensils made of glass were made in Venice. In the future, many European glass artisans are under the Venice. 1827 invention of the glass embossing machine, to carry out the road of mass production of cheap glassware.

Glass is sometimes engraved with artistic designs in acid or other corrosive materials. Traditionally, this was done by craftsmen when the glass was blown or cast. Later, in 1920, a way was invented to add engraving to the molds, and different colors of glass could be used, so after 1930, mass-produced, inexpensive glassware gradually appeared.

China also began making glass during the Western Zhou Dynasty. Glass tubes and beads have been found in ancient tombs from the Western Zhou Dynasty. Before the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Chinese people more to Liuli said to fire, glassy transparent things. In the Song Dynasty, they began to call it glass. By the time of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was customary to call ceramics fired at low temperatures and opaque by the name of glaze. A lot of the "glaze" at the time, strictly speaking, does not belong to the modern said "glass".

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