The history of glass bottles
As soon as people learned to pour the glass, almost the first objects of glass production began to bottle.
The first models were homely: the thick-walled, lop-sided, from muddy dirty glass with bubbles. However, they were small, comfortable, and thus quickly gained popularity. But after a long time, until the bottles become a modern harmony and noble to be.
According to historians and archeologists, the first bottles began to produce in the Middle East and North Africa in the VI century. For convenience, when you carry them to make special lugs (for straps).
When in Venice developed glass craft and the glory of the Venetian products overstepped the limits of the peninsula The local craftsmen, as glassblowers cities Faenza and Urbino, made considerable efforts and skill in the manufacture of bottles. Made of the bottles (they are cast in metal forms) were artistic works: a bizarre appearance , tall and slim, flat, or nearly spherical, convex decorated with relief figures depicting not only the flowers and fruits, but also genre scenes from mythology. In these bottles on the table in rich families were served wine, beverages, seasonings. Other (simpler) were used for storage of liquid products. But they were at that time very expensive. Bottles corked corks of various materials, and on top, usually filled with wax, on which the owner or manufacturer of the product put its stamp. Wax for these purposes have adopted much later.
In the XVII-XVIII centuries in glass bottles were stored medicines and perfumes. Then there were friction lid, providing hermetically sealed.
Plant production of glass in Russia began in 1635. Around the same time, and have mastered the production of glass vessels. The first domestic bottle was released for the glass factory, built in the vicinity of the current station Istra near Moscow, and was intended only for apothecary purposes. Many years passed before the Senate decree of 25 October (Old Style) 1800, decided: "As a sufficient number maketh the factories of glass, mirrors, and every crystal, commands the add the importation from abroad to stop."
Prior to the introduction of the metric system of weights and measures in Russia as a measure of liquids used bottles of two types: dimensional (wine) - one-sixteenth part buckets (or half bottle) and retail - one twelfth of the bucket.
Currently the bottle - one of the most popular products of glass production. They are very diverse in purpose, form (often determined by the designated, since some form helps to ensure optimal conditions for storage of the product), color, capacity. Especially different bottles of wine: Bordeaux (cylindrical, abruptly tapering to the neck), Burgundy, Rhine, champagne, and designed for strong and dessert wines (special form) and special type of Malaga wine, Tokaj, port, vermouth, etc. Many more types of bottles used for alcoholic beverages and the like: their number is determined not only by functional characteristics, as competition among firms - manufacturers of these products. vodka bottle also had its own characteristics and names (alashnye, rowan, mocha, etc.)
Bottles produced from clear and colored glass, usually light - and dark - green light - and dark - brown, black, etc. According to the capacity they also have a very wide range: from 0.05 liter to several liters, and in different countries, the actual capacity bottles of one denomination is not the same (it depends on the country adopted a system of measures). Interestingly, some bottles, particularly large, have their own name (s) depending on the multiplicity of their volume (standard holds 1 / 6 per gallon, representing different countries from 0.63 to 0.76 liters). The names they are given the Bible: Magnum (capacity 1 / 3 a gallon, that is two standard bottles), followed by Trignum (3 bottles), Ierovam (4), Rehavam (6), Methuselah (8), Shalmaneser (12), Valtassar ( 16) and Nebuchadnezzar (20 standard bottles).
In our country the number of bottles produced for food liquids, a fairly limited (in accordance with the applicable standard of several dozen): for wines, champagne, cognac, vodka, liqueurs, juices, beer, soft drinks and mineral water, edible oil, milk and others, in contrast to the perfumery - cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries, where a wide range of glassware in abundance.
Modern bottles but are functional and aesthetic burden, being the subject of table decorations, interior. There are fans collect a variety of bottles. In Madrid, there seems to be the only museum in the world of bottles, which exhibited more than 10 thousand copies around the world. Among them are such that served as "envelopes" in a bottle mail. In most favorite bottle collector - Dutch liqueur Gold, released in the 30-ies. Under a glass case in a bottle - porcelain dancer. If you create a spring musical jewelry boxes, ballerina starts to whirl to the music and it seems that she is dancing right in the liquor. But the fact for fans of records: the world's largest bottle of made of two glass blowers from Switzerland - height 153 cm and a capacity of 111 liters.
As soon as people learned to pour the glass, almost the first objects of glass production began to bottle.
The first models were homely: the thick-walled, lop-sided, from muddy dirty glass with bubbles. However, they were small, comfortable, and thus quickly gained popularity. But after a long time, until the bottles become a modern harmony and noble to be.
According to historians and archeologists, the first bottles began to produce in the Middle East and North Africa in the VI century. For convenience, when you carry them to make special lugs (for straps).
When in Venice developed glass craft and the glory of the Venetian products overstepped the limits of the peninsula The local craftsmen, as glassblowers cities Faenza and Urbino, made considerable efforts and skill in the manufacture of bottles. Made of the bottles (they are cast in metal forms) were artistic works: a bizarre appearance , tall and slim, flat, or nearly spherical, convex decorated with relief figures depicting not only the flowers and fruits, but also genre scenes from mythology. In these bottles on the table in rich families were served wine, beverages, seasonings. Other (simpler) were used for storage of liquid products. But they were at that time very expensive. Bottles corked corks of various materials, and on top, usually filled with wax, on which the owner or manufacturer of the product put its stamp. Wax for these purposes have adopted much later.
In the XVII-XVIII centuries in glass bottles were stored medicines and perfumes. Then there were friction lid, providing hermetically sealed.
Plant production of glass in Russia began in 1635. Around the same time, and have mastered the production of glass vessels. The first domestic bottle was released for the glass factory, built in the vicinity of the current station Istra near Moscow, and was intended only for apothecary purposes. Many years passed before the Senate decree of 25 October (Old Style) 1800, decided: "As a sufficient number maketh the factories of glass, mirrors, and every crystal, commands the add the importation from abroad to stop."
Prior to the introduction of the metric system of weights and measures in Russia as a measure of liquids used bottles of two types: dimensional (wine) - one-sixteenth part buckets (or half bottle) and retail - one twelfth of the bucket.
Currently the bottle - one of the most popular products of glass production. They are very diverse in purpose, form (often determined by the designated, since some form helps to ensure optimal conditions for storage of the product), color, capacity. Especially different bottles of wine: Bordeaux (cylindrical, abruptly tapering to the neck), Burgundy, Rhine, champagne, and designed for strong and dessert wines (special form) and special type of Malaga wine, Tokaj, port, vermouth, etc. Many more types of bottles used for alcoholic beverages and the like: their number is determined not only by functional characteristics, as competition among firms - manufacturers of these products. vodka bottle also had its own characteristics and names (alashnye, rowan, mocha, etc.)
Bottles produced from clear and colored glass, usually light - and dark - green light - and dark - brown, black, etc. According to the capacity they also have a very wide range: from 0.05 liter to several liters, and in different countries, the actual capacity bottles of one denomination is not the same (it depends on the country adopted a system of measures). Interestingly, some bottles, particularly large, have their own name (s) depending on the multiplicity of their volume (standard holds 1 / 6 per gallon, representing different countries from 0.63 to 0.76 liters). The names they are given the Bible: Magnum (capacity 1 / 3 a gallon, that is two standard bottles), followed by Trignum (3 bottles), Ierovam (4), Rehavam (6), Methuselah (8), Shalmaneser (12), Valtassar ( 16) and Nebuchadnezzar (20 standard bottles).
In our country the number of bottles produced for food liquids, a fairly limited (in accordance with the applicable standard of several dozen): for wines, champagne, cognac, vodka, liqueurs, juices, beer, soft drinks and mineral water, edible oil, milk and others, in contrast to the perfumery - cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries, where a wide range of glassware in abundance.
Modern bottles but are functional and aesthetic burden, being the subject of table decorations, interior. There are fans collect a variety of bottles. In Madrid, there seems to be the only museum in the world of bottles, which exhibited more than 10 thousand copies around the world. Among them are such that served as "envelopes" in a bottle mail. In most favorite bottle collector - Dutch liqueur Gold, released in the 30-ies. Under a glass case in a bottle - porcelain dancer. If you create a spring musical jewelry boxes, ballerina starts to whirl to the music and it seems that she is dancing right in the liquor. But the fact for fans of records: the world's largest bottle of made of two glass blowers from Switzerland - height 153 cm and a capacity of 111 liters.
