About Christmas Ornaments
The First World War disrupted the world’s commerce and ended the German dominance in Christmas Ornament manufacturing. United Kingdom and American businesses began making Christmas tree ornaments even cheaper because of new technologies, which came out of the war effort.
In 1939 the Corning Company began to produce glass ornaments. Working with glass and using the new techniques allowed the to produce Glass Christmas Ornaments, to design figures like Santa Claus, snowmen, flowers and a variety of other special Christmas decorations.
The discovery of a process to create a new material which eventually became known as Plastic was reported by Alexander Parkes in 1862 at the Great International Exhibition in London. The substance, which was dubbed Parkesine at the time, was an organic material derived from cellulose that could be poured into molds after heating; it retained its molded shape as it cooled.
Bakelite, an entirely synthetic plastic, was patented in 1907 by Leo Baekeland, a Belgian chemist and business man. In the 1940’s and 50’s began the plastic craze, new molds were developed and everyone began to see plastic Christmas tree ornaments.
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