International Year of Glass 2022

International Year of Glass

THE UNITED NATIONS IS CELEBRATING

  • The 670th anniversary of the earliest depiction of eyeglasses in a painted work of art (frescoes dated 1352 by Tommaso da Modena in Treviso, Italy)

  • The 200th Anniversary of the invention of the Fresnel Lens used in the seashore lighthouses that have prevented countless disasters

  • The 100th anniversary of the discovery of ancient Egyptian Glass in King Tutankhamun’s Tomb in 1922

  • The Centennial Anniversary of the German Society of Technology (DGG)

  • The 70th anniversary of the Pilkington patent in 1952 that heralded the float glass process and forever changed flat glass manufacture

  • The 60th anniversary of the Studio Glass Movement

  • The 45th anniversary of the Nobel Prizes to Anderson and Mott

The official declaration of the United Nations | A complete overview of the International Year of Glass initiative