# Glass and Glass Manufacture Author: Marson, Percival Genre: Category: History - Other Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63421 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Glass+and+Glass+Manufacture+Marson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary The discovery of making glass is attributed to the early Phoenicians. Pliny relates that certain mariners who had a cargo of soda salt, having landed on the banks of a river in Palestine, started a fire to cook their food, and, not finding any stones to rest their pots on, they placed under them some lumps of the soda from their cargo. They found that the heat of their fire had melted the soda and fused it with the sand of the river bank, producing a transparent glass. The natives in the vicinity where this discovery was made in process of time carried on the practice of fusing sand with soda and other materials to make glass, until they succeeded in improving and bringing the art to a hi... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glass-and-glass-manufacture-63421/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glass-and-glass-manufacture-63421/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glass-and-glass-manufacture-63421/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glass-and-glass-manufacture-63421/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glass-and-glass-manufacture-63421/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glass-and-glass-manufacture-63421/chapters/16/index.md) - [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glass-and-glass-manufacture-63421/chapters/15/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glass-and-glass-manufacture-63421/chapters/13/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glass-and-glass-manufacture-63421/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glass-and-glass-manufacture-63421/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glass-and-glass-manufacture-63421/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glass-and-glass-manufacture-63421/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glass-and-glass-manufacture-63421/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glass-and-glass-manufacture-63421/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glass-and-glass-manufacture-63421/chapters/14/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glass-and-glass-manufacture-63421/chapters/1/index.md)