Glass bottle

Common uses for bottles made from glass include food condiments, soda, liquor, cosmetics, pickling and preservatives; they are occasionally also notably used for the informal distribution of notes.

Eventually, the use of a mold was introduced, followed by the invention of a semi-automatic machine, called the Press and Blow, by Yorkshire Iron founder, Howard Matravers Ashley, in 1886.

[4][5] In 1904 Michael Owens invented the automatic bottle machine, after working on the production of Electric lightbulbs, in Ohio, for Edison.

[6] Once made, bottles may suffer from internal stresses as a result of unequal, or too rapid cooling.

An annealing oven, or 'lehr', is used to cool glass containers slowly to prevent stress and make the bottle stronger.