The next evolution is glass making was found in China and Persia in 200 BC using a method whereby molten glass was blown into a mold.
When Jacob Schweppe started in business as a manufacturer of mineral water in the 1780s, earthenware bottles were initially used; these were soon replaced with glass bottles which were impermeable to gasses.
In 1884, Doctor Hervey Thatcher of Potsdam, New York devised the first glass milk bottle. It was called Thatcher's Common Sense Milk Jar, which was sealed with a waxed paper disk.
It was not until the 1890s that American bottle manufacturers invented the technology for producing strong, inexpensive and standardized glass soda bottles.
In 1891, William Painter of Baltimore invited the ‘crown’ metal bottle cap whose corrugated edge crimped around the bottle top.
For almost two hundred years, beer in bottle was ‘boutique’ drink, and it was not until 1860s, with inventions of the chilled iron mold, that glass bottles could be relatively cheaply mass produce prior to this, bottles were hand blown, and thus expensive.
In 1903, automatic made its appearance when Michael J. Owens put the Owens Bottle Machines into commercial use. It was the first source of cheap, mass produced glass bottles.
The first plastic bottle for carbonated beverages was brought forth by Andrew Wyth through the Du Pont Corporation.
History of glass bottle for beverage
