Lamp
Object number96.198.1 a,b
Manufacturer
Consolidated Lamp and Glass Company
(1893 - 1963)
Datec.1900
MediumGlass; Metal; Fiber; Paint
Credit LineGift of Janet S. Clever
DescriptionPressed and blown-molded opaque white and colorless glass lamp in Cosmos pattern.Dimensions8.125 x 4 in. (20.6 x 10.2 cm)Markson knob, "THE P & A MFG CO. ACORN"
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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Consolidated Lamp and Glass Company
