Glass

The first mention of the manufacture of gla in the United States is in Captain John Smith’s ‘‘ History of Virginia,”’ in which he speaks of a gla factory having been founded at James town in 1615, and a second in 1622. The work was coarse, being chiefly confined to bottles. In 1754 a succe ful factory was established in Brooklyn by Bamber, a Dutchman. In 1779 factories were founded at Temple, N. H., and in 1795 the industry was begun at Pittsburg. By 1813 there were five gla factories, valued at $160,000, at Pittsburg. In 1840 there were eighty-one factories in the States, having a capital of $2,014, 100. By 1870, 201 factories flourished in different places, having a total capital of $14,111,642. Since then the industry has rapidly increased.