Chimney, Lamp
Object number95.40.1 a,b
Artist
MacBeth-Evans Glass Company
(1899 - 1936)
Date1883-1899
MediumPaper; Ink; Glass
Credit LineGift of Michael Malley
DescriptionBlown colorless glass lamp chimney, most likely a reproduction, with brown paper wrapping.
Dimensions8.75 x 5 in. (22.2 x 12.7 cm)MarksOn corrugated paper packaging, "T.M. REG. / MACBETH / PEARL / U.S. PAT. OFF."
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.
Subjects
On View
On view
MacBeth-Evans Glass Company
Duncan & Miller Glass Company
c. 1925
c. 1925
