Irving Wightman Colburn

Irving Wightman Colburn (* May 16, 1861; † September 4, 1917 ) was an American inventor and manufacturer whose process allowed for the production of continuous flat glass mass production for the windows.

Colburn began his experiments in 1899, which culminated in a patent for a machine for the production of flat glass on March 25, 1902. He founded the Colburn Machine Glass Co. in August 1906, installed two machines in 1908, but went bankrupt in 1911, before the technology was mature. The Toledo Glass Company bought the patents Colburn in 1912 and introduced Colburn then shortly after. He then improved the process at the Toledo Glass, and his first successful result was on 25 November 1913. The company was then in 1916 to the Libbey -Owens Sheet Glass Company.

  • Industrialist
  • Inventor
  • Americans
  • Born in 1861
  • Died in 1917
  • Man
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