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Chimney, Lamp

Object number94.58.1 a,b

Manufacturer MacBeth-Evans Glass Company (1899 - 1936)

Datec.1880

MediumGlass; Cardboard; Ink

Credit LineGift of the Estate of Evelyn Evans

DescriptionBlown molded.colorless glass chimney lamp, and rectangular grey box with blue printed label.Dimensions8.25 x 3 in. (21 x 7.6 cm)
MarksIn bossed circle, "MACBETH CO. / PEARL / TOP / PITTSBURGH, U.S.A."; on box," MACBETH / NO. 51"
Label TextIn America’s glass capital, glassmakers had the wealth to purchase new technology. Even innovations created elsewhere were often first applied in Western Pennsylvania. When Michael Owens invented an automatic machine that blew lamp chimneys, it was Pittsburgh industrialists George Macbeth and Thomas Evans who each paid $300,000 in patent fees to use the machinery in their factories. Their 1899 purchase made them the largest producers of lamp chimneys and illuminating glassware in the world. Macbeth-Evans plants in Pittsburgh and Charleroi, Pa., and in Indiana and Ohio, turned out over 20 million chimneys a year.

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