currently, they are trying to make a new instrument out of the fact that you can play the song 'swan lake' by using glass blowing. go on to you tube and type in glass blowing and its really cool to watch.
No, the Phoenicians got the idea of glass making from the Egyptians but the Egyptians glass was cloudy. After that that the Phoenicians made improvements to the glass and made it clear.
Since the Phoenicians were an ancient shipbuilding, seafaring and trading civilization of the Middle East, one could say that the Mediterranean Sea was their greatest natural resource. In addition, since they invented the art of glass-blowing, the sands of Arabia could also be thought of as one of their greatest Natural Resources.Alternative:The could generate a surplus if cedar timber, purple dyes, pottery, metal ores.
they were the first ones to make glass using sand and they came up with the 22-letter alphabet.
Blowing glass is a physical phenomenon, or 'property'.
About 700 BCE onwards.
Glass was first "created" for human use by the Syrians and then later by the Romans.More specifically, according to Pliny the Elder, it was the Phoenicians that first invented glass.Glass blowing was invented by the Syrians in the 1st century BC.Another opinionGlass wasn't invented, it was discovered "by Mesopotamians near 35000BCE..."
The achievements the ancient Phoenicians made were making glass, creating the alphabet, inventing purple dye, and working well with wood, such as carving chairs, tables and mostly making boats.
The Phoenicians were called the "Purple People" because they invented a purple dye (Tyrian Purple) made from the Murexsea-snail's shell. Purple was the most expensive dye at that time and almost all of it was made by the "Purple People". They were called the "Purple People" because the dye colored the skin of those who worked with the color!The Phoenicians also invented an alphabet that is the foundation for almost every western language still used today.The Phoenicians are also credited with being the first to develop free-blowing as a method of crafting glass.
Venice, Italy is the world's leading centre for this art. Malta also has glass blowing.
glass blowing
You get seaweed, and bake it on a stove to get soda ash. Then you take a bucket of sand and the soda ash to a smelter and combine both to get molten glass, once you have the molten glass you can get a glass blowing pipe and there you have it, glass.