Somewhere in the near east around 6 or 8 thousand years ago.
Babylonians and Egyptians were using the stuff (as beads and rods) 5000 yrs ago. According to Pliny the Elder, Phoenician traders were the first to stumble upon glass manufacturing techniques at the site of the Belus River. now called the Na'aman River near Acre.
Blown glass was invented in the first century BC in Syria.
The eyeglass was invented first, in the 13th century. The magnifying glass was invented in the 13th century as well. The telescope was invented in the early 17th century, while the microscope was invented in the late 16th century.
Leeuwenhoek
The first eyeglasses were made in Italy at about 1286.
Shatterproof glass was invented by Edouard Benedictus, a French chemist, in 1903. Benedictus discovered the strength of a glass flask with a cellulose nitrate coating that prevented it from shattering when dropped. This was the beginning of safety glass technology.
Float glass was first invented by a company in England called Pilkington Glass.
Blown glass was invented in the first century BC in Syria.
The eyeglass was invented first, in the 13th century. The magnifying glass was invented in the 13th century as well. The telescope was invented in the early 17th century, while the microscope was invented in the late 16th century.
stained glass was first developed?
The first glass light bulb was invented in 1841 by Frederick DeMoleyns. However the first electric lamp was invented in 1806.
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Leeuwenhoek
The magnifying glass was invented by Roger Bacon in 1250 A.D. The first camera was invented nearly 600 years later, in 1840 by Alexander Wolcott.
Somewhere between 18334 and 1835.
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 first glass window was made in the Roman times! == ==