and not only did he recruit the workers he needed, but he also recruited a man named michael owens. michael owens in those early days ran the factory, and libbey was the one who led the marketing campaign. and he was able to go to the world's fair in order to put the libbey glass company on the international stage. and the place where he did that first was the 1893 chicago world's fair. he built a glass furnace and studio so that from soup to nuts they could see glass being made and then stop at a gift shop and purchase a piece of glass. this turned out to be wildly successful. and not only did they have the opportunity to see glass being made, they also were able to see this wonderful novelty that nobody had seen before, which was something called the glass dress. they got this technology where you spun glass threads very, very thin. glass is very malleable, so you can stretch it and stretch it until the point it is the thickness of a thread. they pulled all of these threads, and they wove it into fabric. they made this fabric into a dress that could be worn. it is a phenomenal dre

not only did he recruit the workers he needed, but he also recruited michael owens. factory,wens ran the and libby was the one who led the marketing. he was able to go to the world's fair in order to put the libby glass company on the international stage. the place where he did that first was the 1893 chicago world's fair. glass furnace and from soup to nuts they could see glass being made shophen stop at a gift and purchase some glass. not only did they have the opportunity to see glass being made, they also were able to see this wonderful novelty that nobody had seen before, which was the glass dress. they got this technology where you spun glass threads very thin. then you can stretch it until the point it is the thickness of a threat. they pulled all of these threats, and they welded into fabric. into ade this fabric dress that could be worn. it is a phenomenal dress. we are in front of one of the best known works in our collection. it almost needs no intervention. this is known as the libby punch pulled. 1904 for the world's fair happening in st. louis that year

in a silent film that we will be showing in just a moment, but first joining us is ambassador michael owen, the author of a trail of essential old journey that changed, america how did it change america? >> well this is the first time that an official convoy has driven across the country and it attracted a lot of attention, along the route thousands of people came out to cheer the convoy on and look at the vehicles and talk to them and who were in the convoy and a really spurred a lot of interest and travel by motorized vehicles over just coming in at this time, we are going to watch the film but didn't get a lot of attention in the press? >> it did get a lot of attention, they had a major standoff at the white house, the president was in europe at the time but the secretary waved them off and they were speeches to press results there and there was really quite a scene at the white house before they took off to drive up through the district to federica marilyn where they spent the first night, you explained how it changed the genesis and why the vehicles is part of this convoy. >> you have

and exclusive michael owens was given his own company go forward. work on this and automation. in design new technologies that will change the way glass is produced. >> that's what mr. owens did. the two of them teamed up to produce automatic bottle machine which is called the biggest improvement in the production of glass in 2000 years once they started making flat glass once they began experimenting with fibers of a glass in the 1930s and it spun off as corning. they shaped the city in ways that will always be a part of who we are. i say that toledo never succeeded. we all recognized that. it's a good joke. in some ways that vision of justice scott. in it is a perfect situated geography. they did fulfill that. >> the toledo war was an interesting boundary dispute between ohio and michigan. it really involved surveying the problem. because there was different surveys as to where the boundary line would be. would it be north of toledo or south of toledo obviously, michigan wanted to claimant south of toledo. the reason why it was such a prize in both states wanted it is if you t

his name was michael owens. he started out the person who shoveled the coal worked two shifts a day. the life of a child worker at the time. he knew glass from the bottom u up. he was a difficult person to get along with and was very demanding. so he offered to become superintendent of the factory but the real interest was automating ways to make bottles because the bottle industry is what he was most familiar with was very labor intensive. not only that it required lots of young boys working in these hot, unsafe conditions to make bottles. basically you have one skilled glassblower and three or four boys working so the glassblower would pick up the glass from his blowpipe the boy would stand at the bottom and then the blower would blow in then the boy has to open it up that take the red-hot bottle out take it over where it would cool it was incredibly labor-intensive and at that time 24 percent of the employees in the bottle making industry were children so most one quarter of the people circled these condition

michael owens ran the factory, and libby was the one who led the marketing. he was able to go to the world's fair in order to put the libby glass company on the international stage. the place where he did that first was the 1893 chicago world's fair. he built a glass furnace and studio so that from soup to nuts they could see glass being made and then stop at a gift shop and purchase some glass. not only did they have the opportunity to see glass being made, they also were able to see this wonderful novelty that nobody had seen before, which was the glass dress. they got this technology where you spun glass threads very thin. then you can stretch it until the point it is the thickness of a threat. they pulled all of these threats, and they welded into fabric. they made this fabric into a dress that could be worn. it is a phenomenal dress. >> we are in front of one of the best known works in our collection. it almost needs no intervention. this is known as the libby punch pulled. it was made in 1904 for the world's fair happening in st. louis that year. often

his name was michael owens and the winds started out as the person who shoveled: to the glass furnaces, worked two shifts a day and this was the life of a child worker in the glass industry at the time. so, he knew glass from the bottom up. he had done every aspect of glass production. he was a difficult person to get along with , but he was very demanding, so he offered to become superintendent of mr. libby's factory in toledo, but his real interest was in automating ways to make bottles because the bottle industry, which was what michael was most familiar with was very labor-intensive and not only that, it's require lots of young boys working in these hot unsafe conditions to make bottles. basically, what it was was you had one skilled glassblower and three or four boys working with him took the glassblower would pick up the glass on his pipe. the boy would stand at the bottom and put a mold around the hot molten glass and then the glassblower would blow into the mold and then the boy would open up the mold another boy would take the red hot bottle out of the mold and take it to the

secretary of state michael owen vice president my parents are on their way to turkey to push for a cease fire in northeastern syria they're part of a delegation hoping to meet present. on meanwhile turkish forces and kurdish fighters are still battling in the strategic border town of rostock and syrian troops have entered the border town of kabbani as turkey tries to establish its so-called safe zone in northern syria. hong kong's leader carry mom has been shouted down for a 2nd consecutive day in the city's legislature a short time ago opposition members protested in the chamber and call for her to step down at least one person was dragged out by security. the last minute breaks at negotiations are continuing with leaders hoping a deal can be approved at an e.u. leaders summit on thursday french president emmanuel mccall says he wants to believe an agreement has been finalized paul brennan reports from london. the summit is shrouded in cloud but we are almost there the words of prime minister boris johnson at a closed door meeting of his party m.p.'s on wednesday afternoon according to

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i like michael shermer, i like his debunking of ufos i like his debunking of the holocaust and dashed but is going after religion is doing something immoral even by his own criteria. >> owenat example. if you want to go anecdotal there's the anecdotes to go to. prior to the 20th century you have atheist all the time when they want to tell the anecdotes when i want to tell their stories they want to go to the middle ages. they want to talk about the inquisitions. they want to talk about religious wars. they want to talk about witchhunts and the salem witch hunts. they say, look at all these bad things religious people are doing clearly religion is bad. that doesn't rise to the level of anecdotal evidence because there's no control group. erasers came up to you and said, black people are inherently more violent than white people even say what you evidence? they would say well in the year 1500 in africa people committed. they committed all the oppression on the assaults all the rates on the steps all about my black people i don't see white people committing those crimes. your answer would be, Ãb there's no control group. that's exactly what the atheist do they say look at al