Rome’s Lost Unbreakable Glass

We should have had unbreakable glass 2,000 years ago. But a Roman Emperor chose execution

over progress. An inventor brought a bowl to Emperor Tiberius and threw it on the floor.

It didn’t shatter—it just dented. The man took a hammer and hammered the dent back out.

It was perfect. Tiberius asked one question: 'Does anyone else know the secret?' When

the man said no... that sealed his fate." Tiberius ordered his head to be cut

off. He was terrified that unbreakable glass would make the Roman gold supply

worthless. Gold was more important than a revolution. He murdered a technology we’ve never been

able to rebuild. We have the records of 'Vitrum Flexile', but the secret died on that executioner’s