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Owens, Michael Joseph

(1859-1923), U.S. manufacturer, invented automatic bottle-blowing machine (patents in 1895 and 1904), capable of blowing 4 finished bottles a second by 1904. He organized the Owens Bottle Machine Company in 1903 and later the Libbey-Owen Sheet Glass Company (1916). He received more than 45 patents for glass blowing apparatus. He was born in 1859, Mason County, Virginia (now West Virginia), and died Dec. 27, 1923, Toledo, Ohio.

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