Edward Drummond Libbey American Glassmaker

<p> Edward Drummond Libbey was a glassmaker industrialist artist innovator and art collector. Both practical and creative he forever changed the glass industry with the automatic bottle-making machine and automatic sheet glass machine. This work examines the long career of Libbey particularly his innovation of American flint cut glass his contributions to the middle-class American table through affordable glassware and his enormous art glass and painting collections which eventually formed the basis for the Toledo Museum of Art's collection. Libbey single-handedly revolutionized glassmaking a craft which had gone virtually unchanged for 2000 years.</p>