{"product_id":"9781450075442","title":"The Glassmakers, Revisited: A History of Owens-Illinois, Inc.","description":"Its corporate name is hardly a household word,  \u003cbr\u003eyet Owens-Illinois, Inc., located near a small  \u003cbr\u003etown in northwestern Ohio, is the world's largest  \u003cbr\u003emanufacturer of glass bottles and jars used to  \u003cbr\u003eprovide food, beverages and medicines each day for millions of people around the world.  \u003cbr\u003eAlthough the glass containers it produces are among the most modern of packages, the  \u003cbr\u003eCompany is one of America's oldest business  \u003cbr\u003eenterprises, able to trace its ancestry back to  \u003cbr\u003e1818 and the founding of the New England Glass  \u003cbr\u003eCompany in East Cambridge, Massachusetts,  \u003cbr\u003eby Deming Jarves, the nation's most famous  \u003cbr\u003eglassmaker.  \u003cbr\u003eThe venerable Ohio glass company owes  \u003cbr\u003eits existence today to the innovative genius  \u003cbr\u003eof Michael J. Owens, the inventor of a  \u003cbr\u003erevolutionary machine to blow bottles  \u003cbr\u003eautomatically, and the business acumen of his boss, Edward D. Libbey. Their story, and that  \u003cbr\u003eof the nine other men who perpetuated the  \u003cbr\u003eindustrial giant Owens and Libbey established,  \u003cbr\u003eis told here by a historian and businessman who has been a student of the glass industry for  \u003cbr\u003enearly six decades.","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143255081200,"sku":"9781450075442","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781450075442_p0.jpg?v=1763839232","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781450075442","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}