Excerpt from Round the World, Vol. 2
Nowhere is the intelligence and adaptability of the American workman better illustrated than in the making of glass. It is but a few years since this was an infant industry; but so well has the industry thriven that to-day the infant has almost attained maturity, for, in many branches, the glass we manufacture excels that of all other countries.
An ancient art it is, and its history is so replete with interest that it has attracted many students. But few questions have been more discussed than the origin of glass. Ph?nicia, Phrygia, Thebes, and Sidon, each has its champions, who claim for it the discovery of the process of vitrifaction.
Others still place its origin even further back, claiming that when man first discovered fire and subjected natural bodies to its action, he must have discovered the vitrifaction of certain substances.
If the last theory is to be accepted we must conclude that glass was discovered less than a hundred and fifty years after the birth of the world.
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