Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Edward Drummond Libbey changed the glass industry with his automatic bottle-making and sheet glass machines. This work examines Libbey's career, particularly his innovation of American flint cut glass, contributions to the middle-class American table through affordable glassware, and his art glass and painting collections, which eventually formed the basis for Toledo Museum of Art's collection"--Provided by publisher.
Corning Glass (p. 13, 44, 77-80, 135-136).
Contents:
A crisis in Frogtown --
A personal and industrial genealogy --
Edward Drummond Libbey --
Toledo and northwest Ohio of the 1880s --
The Business Men's Association --
Florence Scott --
The turnaround --
The Columbian World Fair --
Industrialist and glass aristocrat --
The Toledo Glass Company --
Signature years --
The glass capitalist --
Europe and expansion --
Grand opening --
The story of flat glass --
Working on a legacy --
The taming of the lion --
Final months --
A model CEO --
An industrial and labor republic --
Industrial designer and marketing genius.
