The development of the automatic glass bottle machine. A story of some pioneers

GT V01 1960 025-050

Glass Technical Services Limited, London This retrospective study of the technological changes in glass bottle manufacture which have led to complete automation in the glass container industry today covers the slow change over many centuries from hand methods of bottle manufacture to the early attempts, towards the end of the nineteenth century, to introduce machines. There follows an account of the astonishingly rapid developments during the present century dating from the introduction of the first commercial Owens machine and the first stream feeder in 1903, leading to the modern suction and6gob'-fedmachines of today. Reference is made to the leading personalities and pioneers in this revolutionary process.

Edward Meigh