Show Glass Class Bead Factory Was First Industry in U. U S S. S Eight Dutch and Polish glass glas s blowers were Imported for tor AmerIcas AmerIca's Amer Amer- ica's ices earliest experiment In the production production production pro pro- of glass an experiment which also bears the distinction of being the first manufacturing industry industry indus indus- try in the United States Slates states a writer in the Detroit Free Press They set up a furnace at Jamestown James town in 1609 under the protecting wing of the Virginia company turning turn ing lag out glass beads for use in trad trad- trading ing lag with the Indians Neither their names nor any authenticated specimen spec spec- men of their product has come downto down downto to us but it is s believed that they turned out a considerable quantity of glass la s. s Operation of the furnace ceased with the failure of ot th the Jamestown colony The next effort a decade later was also at Jamestown This tune time six Venetian glass blowers were procured History permits us to know the names names of three of them them them-Bernardo Bernardo and but Vincenzo-but Vincenzo but little more They too made glass glan beads But Dut their displeasure with regulations regulations regulations regula regula- laid down by the colony's colony supervising supervising supervising su su- su- su authorities brought on the first recorded labor trouble In the United States States States-a a virtual dur strike strike dur during ing lug which one glass blower smashed both oth glass furnaces thus ending the second experiment Shortly after Dutch glass glan makers arrived at New Amsterdam and 50 years eara later lacer Germans started the industry industry industry in- in in in- in Philadelphia 0 |