'Christmas in a globe': Made in Vienna snow globes still going strong after 100 years

euronews (in English)

In the early 1900s, Vienna-based surgical instrument maker Erwin Perzy was asked to create a bright surgical lightbulb, but instead, he invented the snow globe.

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00:32 Our snow globe is an invention of my grandfather.

00:35 He invented the snow globe by mistake in the year 1900.

00:40 My grandfather was surgical instruments mechanic,

00:42 and he would like to improve Edison's light bulb

00:45 for the illumination of operation rooms.

00:49 And he did some tests, and one of these tests

00:53 created the snow globe.

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01:01 On February 20th, we had a fire here in our company.

01:12 And the section where we do the gold plating was under fire.

01:18 And from February until August, we

01:22 could not continue with the gold plating.

01:27 So the production was stopped in this area.

01:32 And now we need to work a lot to fill our orders.

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