| A MACHINE FOR MAKING GLASSBEADS |
V. C. Dor<-',
Pages : 157-168
DOI : 10.1080/0371750X.1951.10877547 |
| Abstract |
| The manufacture .of glass beads originated in Czechoslovakia
in 1815. The town of Gablon:t is connected with the
glass industry smce the middl..: ages. From an insignificant
village more than 150 years ago, it became the
principal town in Bohemia, engaged in the ornamental glass
industry specialising in beads, buttons and imitation pearls.
At its height of prosperity, bead exports covered over 90 to
95% of its total glass production. With the advent of mechanisation
in the glass of industry, the technique of bead
manufacture underwent vast improvements from a slow hand
process to the adoption of various intricate machines, tools
and mechanical devices resulting in larger production anJ
flooding of world markets with Czechoslavak beads. |
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