History of glass container

Glass containers were first produced several thousand years ago in ancient Egypt and have been in continues use throughout the ages since. It is known that at least 6000 years ago – long before the man had learned to smelt iron – man knew how to make glass.

The first glass furnaces were volcanoes and the first man to use glass took it from the ground already fused and cooled. Early glass makers in Egypt and Mesopotamia may have formed glass to emulate gemstone. 

The technology of glass bead making grew into a valuable skill around 3000 BC. The Mesopotamian civilization that emerged in the region gave a boost to the development of glass, and because they developed a written language and have a record of the way in which they used it,

In 1500 BC, Egyptian, Phoenician, and Greek glass workers shaped containers by dropping a bag of sand into melted glass to create a hollow vessel.

Three centuries later, manufacturers pressed glass into bowls and cups. Glass containers have been used commercially for the preservation of food products by heat for almost 200 years.

The glass were being used for packaging champagne early in the eighteenth century. When Jacob Schweppe started un business as a manufacturer of mineral water in the 1780s, earthware bottles were initially used; these were soon replace with glass bottles which were impermeable to gases.

Since about the 1910’s, carbonated beverages in glass bottles have become prevalent and common.
History of glass container