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Since wine rather than hot tea was their source of safe water, the use of glass for containers, later for windows, mirrors, & instruments such as prisms and primitive (e.g. spherical) lenses was far more common in Europe than in other cultures.
Glass allowed chemists to safely contain yet observe. It played a key role in the 17c scientific revolution -- microscopic biology, telescopic astronomy, and global exploration. The barometer led to understanding air & vacuum, enabling the steam engine.
Before the solid-state transistors & integrated circuits that gave it the name "Silicon" Valley, that region was a locus of innovation in glass vacuum tubes, the key mid-20th-century tech for radios, televisions, guidance & control, electronic warfare, radar, & early computers.
More on the glass-centric theory of historyhttps://www.amazon.com/Glass-World-History-Alan-Macfarlane/dp/0226500284 …
This is all kinds of awesome. The Glass Theory of Innovation. #topicforphdproject
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