A History Class on Glass!
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Glass has been a staple in packaging for centuries. Historians have documented a history of glass which can be subdivided into different ages when this material was popularly used. Beginning with the earliest signs of glass containers in Mesopotamia around 1500BC, the evolution of glass took several turns along a series of evolutions which eventually led to the industrial age. Here’s an interesting recap of all the times in human history that glass usage took several shapes and forms, until they began to be used as the product packaging we see today. The Ancient World The first instance of a glass bottle being made for human use was recorded in 1500BC in ancient Mesopotamia. Glass at that time was manufactured from a natural substance known as natron which contains sodium carbonate decahydrate and sodium bicarbonate, and bits of sodium sulfate and sodium chloride. The science of molding glass into different shapes wasn’t known to man until Syrians discovered it in 1 st c