Corning Glass Works, Owens-Illinois Glass Company and the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company were the three companies responsible for the Glass Incorporated pavilion.

Corning Glass Works, Owens-Illinois Glass Company and the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company were the three companies responsible for the Glass Incorporated pavilion.

Visitors were entertained with exhibits of an enormous glass furnace with glass-blowing demonstrations, looms that created fiberglass, a fully operating, miniature bottling plant, the largest piece of clear crystal ever cast, a three-room furnished suite where the curtains and upholstery were all made of glass and a collection of fun-house mirrors.

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Glass Inc. at night - photo MO27 - from the collection taken by John Ott courtesy of his grandson Michael Ott.


Glass Inc. at night - photo 095

Craftsmen were on hand creating wonderful glass objects. (below) The begining of a glass vase. The hot glass is shaped and other pieces of glass added until the object is finished.

Glass Inc.- Photo RM07 - captured with permission from Robert Martens from a film taken by his grandfather, Gustave Martens.


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Glass Inc.- Craftsman blowing glass



Glass Inc.- Craftsman blowing glass