Show the of jbf there is little or nothing known with certainty in regard to the invention or discovery of glass some of the oldest specimens are egyptian and the age of certain glass vessels made by that people which are now kept in the british museum is believed to be at least years dating back to the year 2300 B C transparent glass was first used about B C the credit of this latter discovery being given to the phoenicians Phoenicia ns the old story of its accidental discovery is familiar merchants who were resting their cooking pots on blocks of of soda found glass produced by the union under heat of the alkali and the sands of the desert |