Material Evolution

ID: 2650 ~ Source: Ben W. Hough, interviewed by Sean Sutcliffe, 24 March, 2017 in Waco, Texas, Baylor University Institute for Oral History. View Full Interview
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Hough talks about the fluctuating popularity of glass after the advent of plastic bottles and tin cans.

This file appears in: Owens-Illinois

By Anabel Burke
Owens-Illinois Inc., one of the largest glass bottle manufacturers in the world, originally came out of the famous Glass Capital of the World—Toledo, Ohio—in 1903. With its success came expansion, and the company opened a plant in Waco, Texas, on…