How is glass made video

Even though we look at the glass as one of the most common building material for various kitchen utensils, windows, wide variety of ornamental small objects, and important part of modern computer communications, its initial use by our earliest ancestors made it one of the most sought after and valuable objects in the entire world.

In those prehistoric times naturally formed glass (volcanic obsidian) was used as a sharp weapon, useful tool, and it carried great value.

The first archeological evidence of glass manufacture comes from areas of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.

In those times the only glass product that were made were created either by glazing premade objects, or beads that were formed accidentally in other of other metalwork's processes.

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By the late Bronze Age the process of glassmaking evolved into more organized profession, with works pouring molten glass into premade containers. This process was slow, unreliable, and it did not enabled glass to became commonplace.

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