What Is The Development History Of Glass?2023-07-25 17:08:04

The earliest glass makers in the world were ancient Egyptians. The emergence and use of glass has a history of more than 4000 years in human life. Small glass beads have been unearthed from the ruins of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt 4000 years ago.

In the 12th century AD, commercial glass emerged and began to become an industrial material. In the 18th century, optical glass was produced to meet the needs of telescope manufacturing. In 1874, Belgium first produced flat glass. In 1906, the introduction machine for flat glass was made in the United States. Since then, with the industrialization and large-scale production of Glass production, glass with various uses and properties has been produced one after another. In modern times, glass has become an important material in daily life, production, and scientific and technological fields.

More than 3000 years ago, a European Phoenician merchant ship, loaded with crystal mineral "natural soda", sailed on the Beirus River on the Mediterranean coast. Due to the low tide of the sea, the merchant ship ran aground, and the crew boarded the beach one after another. Some crew members even brought large pots, brought firewood, and used a few pieces of "natural soda" as supports for the pots, cooking on the beach.

The crew finished their meal and the tide began to rise. They were about to pack up and board the boat to continue sailing when suddenly someone shouted, "Everyone, come and see! There are some shiny and shiny things on the sand under the pot

The crew brought these shimmering things onto the ship and carefully studied them. They found that these shiny things were coated with some quartz sand and melted natural soda. Originally, these sparkling things were the natural soda that they used to make pots when cooking. Under the action of flames, they chemically reacted with quartz sand on the beach to produce substances, which were the earliest glass. Later, the Phoenicians mixed quartz sand and natural soda together, and then melted them in a special furnace to make glass balls, which made the Phoenicians rich.

Around the 4th century, the ancient Romans began to apply glass to doors and windows, and by 1291, Italy's glass manufacturing technology had become very advanced.

In this way, Italian glass craftsmen were sent to an isolated island to produce glass, and they were not allowed to leave this island for their entire lives.

In 1688, a person named Naff invented the process of making large pieces of glass, and from then on, glass became an ordinary object.