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History of glass balls

 

History of glass balls
People use balls for entertainment or decorations already in ancient times. The oldest known balls come from Egypt and they are dated back to the 3000 BC. We know the balls from Crete or from native North Africans. At the time, it was the balls made of pebbles, stones, marble or carved from bones.
Glass balls are younger. Historians are in dispute, where the first glass balls were produced in bulk. Somebody argue that it was in Venice, while others believe that it was in Germany town Lauscha in the glassworks founded in 1590 by Christoffer Müller and Hans Greiner. Around 1846 a German glassblower from this glasswork – Elias Johann Christoph Simon Carl Greiner – invented special scissors, which cut the soft glass to beads. These scissors make the production of glass beads easier, but it was still a manufacture. 
The first machine production of glass beads introduced in 1902 in the United States established Martin Frederik Christensen, a native Dane, who emigrated from Denmark in 1867. He patented the first machine for forming glass beads directly from molten glass in 24th October 1905. His firm operated until 1917 when production had to finish because of entire lack of energy (natural gas).
After the First World War the production of glass balls was slowly beginning in a glass factory not only for entertainment and decoration, but the first glass beads for industrial use begin to produce. New ways of production were invented. Today there are known four basic ways machinery manufacturing bullets, which are used to produces any technical glass beads in the world.
There are only few companies in the world that specializes on the manufacture and sale glass balls. These include our company, which has a one of the widest range of glass and ceramic beads.

 

People use balls for entertainment or decorations already in ancient times. The oldest known balls come from Egypt and they are dated back to the 3000 BC. We know the balls from Crete or from native North Africans. At the time, it was the balls made of pebbles, stones, marble or carved from bones.

Glass balls are younger. Historians are in dispute, where the first glass balls were produced in bulk. Somebody argue that it was in Venice, while others believe that it was in Germany town Lauscha in the glassworks founded in 1590 by Christoffer Müller and Hans Greiner. Around 1846 a German glassblower from this glasswork – Elias Johann Christoph Simon Carl Greiner – invented special scissors, which cut the soft glass to beads. These scissors make the production of glass beads easier, but it was still a manufacture. 

The first machine production of glass beads introduced in 1902 in the United States established Martin Frederik Christensen, a native Dane, who emigrated from Denmark in 1867. He patented the first machine for forming glass beads directly from molten glass in 24th October 1905. His firm operated until 1917 when production had to finish because of entire lack of energy (natural gas).

After the First World War the production of glass balls was slowly beginning in a glass factory not only for entertainment and decoration, but the first glass beads for industrial use begin to produce. New ways of production were invented. Today there are known four basic ways machinery manufacturing bullets, which are used to produces any technical glass beads in the world.

There are only few companies in the world that specializes on the manufacture and sale glass balls. These include our company, which has a one of the widest range of glass and ceramic beads.