Was pane glass available in horse-drawn carriages in the 18th century?”
History of glass Phoenicia and Egypt Naturally occurring glass, such as obsidian, has been used since the stone age. According to Pliny the Elder, the Phoenicians made the first glass: The tradition is that a merchant ship laden with nitrum being moored at this place, the merchants were preparing their meal on the beach, and not having stones to prop up their pots, they used lumps of nitrum from the ship, which fused and mixed with the sands of the shore, and there flowed streams of a new translucent liquid, and thus was the origin of glass. Glass used as a glaze for pottery is known as early as 3000 BC. However, there is archaeological evidence to support the claim that the first glass was made in Mesopotamia. Glass beads, seals, and architectural decorations date from around 2500 BC. By the 5th century BC this technology had spread to Greece and beyond. In the first century BC there were many glass centres located around the Mediterranean. Around this time, at the eastern end of the
