My father spent a large potion of his career in the lighting industry. This was, of course, old school incandescent lamps. He was more focused on the metal parts, especially bases, of the lamps. But he worked closely with the people who would have run these machines.
The Corning Museum of Glass has more detail about these machines on their blog. They are currently storing the machine.
[…] will add some detail to the posting of the YouTube video about the ribbon machine. I’ve found these molds that were used to form items ribbon machine. […]
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