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Glassblowing
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Inflating molten glass on the end of a blowpipe and shaping it with breath, gravity and simple tools. The technique made glass vessels cheap enough for ordinary households for the first time in the Roman world, and its studio revival in the 1960s turned a factory trade back into an individual craft.
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Earliest Evidence (Circa)Invented in the 1st century BC on the Syro-Palestinian coast and spread rapidly through the Roman world 1 OriginGlassblowing was a genuine technical leap, not a refinement of older glassworking: it put to use inflation, expanding a molten blob of glass with a small amount of air, a working property of glass that earlier glassworkers had never exploited. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Glassblowing (Wikipedia)
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glassblowing exploited a working property of glass that was previously unknown to glassworkers: inflation, which is the expansion of a molten blob of glass by introducing a small amount of air into it.
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