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Even though the very first glass bottle was produced around 1500 BC, the American glass bottle industry came into being in the early 1600 when settlers in Jamestown built the first known glass melting furnace. It is also worth mentioning that though glass bottles were first patented in 1841, it was not until late in the 19th and early 20th century that glass bottles became quite popular. This was mainly driven by the invention of the automatic glass bottle blowing machine in 1903 which significantly cut down the cost of production and allowed for the mass production of glasses of uniform weigh..