expended; and finally there was accomplished what the majority of
practical glass men were ever claiming as the impossible-- the
Colburn sheet glass machine as perfected today by The Libbey-Owens
Sheet Glass Company.
I. W. COLBURN'S FACTORY AT FRANKLIN, PENNSYLVANIA
The inventor of the process,
Irving W. Colburn,
became interested in glass in 1898 and started a small
experimental plant at Blackford, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
where he worked on a machine for blowing lamp chimneys and
tumblers. After working two years and expending $17,000, he
abandoned this work and moved to a small plant at
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