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Laminated Glass
French Chemist Edouard Benedictus invented laminated glass -
Improving glass bulbs
Griggith theory of the strength of brittle materials first applied to glass bulbs deliberately weakened by scratches, dramatically improves understanding of and how to improve the strength of glass -
Flouride Glass
Marcel & Michel Poulain and Jacques Lucas discover first fluoride glass in Rennes, France. -
Present Day
Glass research is now moving beyond oxide glass chemistries and traditional melting processing. Entirely new processes such as sol-gel processing, chemical vapor deposition are being developed. New glass chemistries are being developed all the time, especially non-oxide chemistries such as halide glasses, chalcogenide glasses and chalcohalide glasses -
Float Glass causes Flat Glass Revolution
Pilkington Brothers patent the float glass process and introduced in England and will ultimately revolutionized flat glass manufacturing. -
First Glass also found in Egypt
Egygtians first invented glass around 3,000 B.C -
Obsidian
The geologic glass, obsidian was first used by man thousands of years ago to form knives, arrow tips, jewelry etc. Manmade glass objects appear to be first reported in the Mesopotamian region as early as 4,500 BC.