Ways of shaping glass and the glasses imagined to be tougher than ordinary glass, from glassblowing, which inflates molten glass into a bubble with a blowpipe, to unbreakable glass, which does not show the normal fragility of glass, and flexible glass, an alleged lost invention of Roman times. An invention belongs here when the cited article describes it as a glassmaking technique or a kind of glass.
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Glassblowing (Wikipedia)
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is a glassforming technique that involves inflating molten glass into a bubble
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is an alleged lost invention from the time of the reign of Tiberius Caesar
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is glass, or glass substitute, which does not display the normal fragility of glass
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