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Michael Owens: An Ode to the Glass Industry

When you think of your future in the postmodern world? How do you imagine yourself in a year or two? Do you think you will be able to make it into this competitive reality? We are used to believe that we need a whole bunch of talents to compete in this terribly cruel labor market. We are used to think that an extraordinary talent and a passion for hard work are the two most essential prerequisites of anyone’s success. This is why we invest so many thousands of dollars in higher education. However, we at Arizona glass company are convinced that good luck, a good chance, and perseverance can do everything for a person, even if he/she does not have a diploma.

In this post, our window glass repair company wants to share the story of Michael Owens, a person who is believed to have changed the world of glass manufacturing. One of the most curious things about Owens is that he did not have any professional education. In fact, he dropped out of school when he was 10 and never got back to it. This is why he has serious difficulties with spelling. He also did not have any talent for mechanical planning and calculations. He could not draw. He could not read technical data. However, he had a remarkable, even outstanding, talent for visualizing glass things in three dimensions. He managed to find a common language with engineers, who realized and implemented his ideas, turning them into revolutionary inventions.

We at Glass repair Chandler claim that Owens remains the crucial and one of the most potent figures in the history of the international glass industry. What he did was making the glass bottle industry automatic and, as a result, popular and cost-effective. Today, we cannot imagine that people used to produce each bottle manually, making it an exclusive and sort of artful invention. As a result, each bottle would look and behave differently.

The absence of mass production technologies presented a serious obstacle to the standardization of the glass industry. It is with the help of Owens’ revolutionary invention that most things we use on an everyday basis have become possible and affordable. Pasteurized milk, popular beverages like Coca Cola and Pepsi, bottles for pharmaceuticals and cosmetics – all these things would have remained a dream, had Owens failed to deliver his idea in practice. Today, we praise his talent and hard work for almost everything we do or have at Glass repair Gilbert.

Since the early age, Owens had worked with his father at a coal factory. This is actually why he had to leave his school. He was very determined to become an owner of a glassmaking factory, and he was not willing to waste his time on socialization with peers. Born to the family of Irish Catholics, Owens faced huge opposition on his way to leadership and success. Still, he became one of the first managers of the factory that supplied General Electric with light bulbs. He also worked with engineers and blacksmiths to create a molding machine that would be connected to a glassblower.

We at Home glass repair experience pleasure and delight at seeing the long-standing products of Owens’ hard work. This is, probably, similar to the pleasure and delight General Electric experienced when it learned the benefits of the bulb-making process developed by Owens. Almost everything in the modern glass industry owes its popularity and success to Owens. We hope that the legacy of Michael Owens will continue to motivate future inventors and revolutionize the entire industry even further.

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