Day glass industry
This professional holiday of the people working in the field glass industry coincided with the birth of M. C. University, outstanding Russian scientists. He created the foundations of chemical production of porcelain, glaze, and glass. He was also a developer of technology for the production of colored glass, which was used by Lomonosov for mosaic. It was also invented porcelain mass. About five thousand years have passed since then, as it was invented matter, without which we are not able to do in any field of human activity – this glass. The first glass, which came to our time of Egyptian origin.
Since the beginning of the eleventh century in ancient Russia was an artistic items of colored glass, which was produced as tableware and decorations and mosaics. The method of producing glass was borrowed from the Byzantines and only during the reign of Yaroslav the Wise wizard in Kiev began to produce Silica-svincovoe glass. The glass, of course, of ancient origin, but the mass production of glass began only after the invention of stoves SIEMENS-MARTIN and manufacturing factories SODA. And only in the modern world have started to produce sheet glass. It began to produce only when in the 2nd half of the twentieth century has invented a new technology for the production of glass.