how did human first discover glass and the proper use for it?
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Like most things, probably through accident. Its very probable that during a fire on or near a beach with lava. Glass was simply made by the enviorment around it. People would adaot and find a practile use for it later on.
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Like most things, probably through accident. Its very probable that during a fire on or near a beach with lava. Glass was simply made by the enviorment around it. People would adaot and find a practile use for it later on.
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Like most things, probably through accident. Its very probable that during a fire on or near a beach with lava. Glass was simply made by the enviorment around it. People would adaot and find a practile use for it later on.
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Lightning strikes in the desert produce glass, this is the only natural process that I know of. Flint napping is a process of taking brittle obsidian and chipping it into arrowheads or knives, so most likely something like this was used to make rudimentary tools.
Edit to add: volcanic glass is also a thing
I used to work in a glass museum. The earliest examples of glass were actually melted enamels applied to decorate clay vessels with color. The earliest glass vessels were essentially thick layers of glass enamel around a simple dirt core. Once the glass cooled they would pick out the core and have a hollow vessel. The Roman’s are attributed with the discovery of glass blowing, around 50 BCE.
There is a fun story where Pliny the elder attributed the discovery of glass to Phoenicians building a fire on a beach and discovering that the sand melted into glass, but that doesn’t fit with the archeological evidence.
Lightning strikes in the desert produce glass, this is the only natural process that I know of. Flint napping is a process of taking brittle obsidian and chipping it into arrowheads or knives, so most likely something like this was used to make rudimentary tools.
Edit to add: volcanic glass is also a thing
Lightning strikes in the desert produce glass, this is the only natural process that I know of. Flint napping is a process of taking brittle obsidian and chipping it into arrowheads or knives, so most likely something like this was used to make rudimentary tools.
Edit to add: volcanic glass is also a thing
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