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Grinding cut glass
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A man sits at a grinding machine, holding a piece of glass.

Credit: From Pennsylvania and Its Manifold Activities, 1912.

In 1912, it was written that Pittsburgh was regarded as the "cradle of the glass industry in America", because of the city's improvements in the process of making glass and generating revolutionizing machinery for the glass industry.

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