![]() ![]() ![]() One of these is Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, whilst the other is the Satyricon, commonly attributed to the Roman courtier Petronius. Whilst no physical evidence of such a glass has been found so far, there are two main written sources attesting to its existence. ( CC BY SA 2.0 ) Tales of the Famed Roman Glassįlexible glass is said to be a legendary lost invention dating to the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius Caesar. Arguably one of the most intriguing of these glass types is the so-called flexible glass. In the Roman Empire, glass became a commonly produced item, though special luxury glasses were also created. Over the course of the millennia, glass-makers honed their skills, improving the techniques used to produce this substance, as well as the glass itself. ![]() Man-made glass (as opposed to a naturally occurring one such as obsidian) is widely accepted to have been invented by the Phoenicians. Stories say that an ancient Roman glassmaker had the technology to create a flexible glass, ‘vitrium flexile’, but a certain emperor decided the invention should not be.įlexible glass is allegedly a type of unbreakable glass that was invented during the Roman period. A glass that you drop but it doesn’t break. Imagine a glass you can bend and then watch it return to its original form. ![]()
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