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production of pressed glassware. The works started in a modest 

 way with one eight-pot furnace, and increased their capacity as 

 circumstances warranted. About two years after the works were 

 built a local carpenter applied to the proprietor for a bit of glass- 

 ware needed in some building operation, and was told that it could 

 not be supplied. He suggested that the material might be pressed 



A Modern Glass-Press. 



into the shape he wanted. With the co-operation of the propri- 

 etor a rough press was made, and after some experimenting was 

 found to answer the purpose admirably. A glass tumbler, stated 

 to have been the first one made, was exhibited at the Centennial 

 Exposition in 1876, but was unfortunately broken. From this in- 

 cidental suggestion, given, too, by an outsider, the present exten- 

 sive industry takes its rise. The American press is now used 

 in nearly all the glass-producing countries of Europe, and has 



