The Root Glass Company to design and exclusively manufacture a "new bottle, a distinctive package" for Coca-Cola. Chapman J. Root formed a design team for the contest consisting of plant supervisor Alexander Samuelson, auditor Clyde Edwards, and staff machinist Earl R. Dean. The now worldwide "Contour Bottle" icon was then patterned after the cocoa plant pod that was researched by Clyde Edwards and Earl Dean at the Emeline Fairbanks Memorial Library in Terre Haute. Once a sketch was made at the library by Earl Dean, he worked through the night adapting the sketch to a hand machined mold depicting the curved cocoa pod as
White Glass Company the modern businessman, as entrepreneurs, rather than as workers. The company was later known as The Ohio Valley Glass Company. Several examples of the bottles manufactured at the Ohio Glass Company can be found on the web as of 2007. White Glass Company White Glass Company was one of Ohio's early members of the glass industry. It existed from 1815 until approximately 1851. Begun in Zanesville, Ohio at the South West corner of 3rd and Market Streets. It was chartered 13 May 1815 with Isaac Van Horne as President and his son in law Dr. John E. Hamm as Secretary.