Michael Owens patents a glass-blowing machine

On This Day  |  Posted by: Tedd Long  |  02/26/2026

1895: Michael Owens patents a glass-blowing machine. Just eight years later, Owens, a self-taught inventor, propels the glass industry into the mechanical age with the introduction of the world’s first completely automatic glass-forming machine for making bottles.

 

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