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
London Opera Glass Company it opened in October 1999. The company is now based in Sandwich, Kent. It supplies over 60 theatres in the United Kingdom and the distinctive red glasses are made in the UK. The company makes charitable donations, including to "The Theatres Trust" and the Marlowe Theatre. London Opera Glass Company donated 30 pairs of glasses to the Wildlife Trust of South & West Wales for children to use. London Opera Glass Company The London Opera Glass Company was officially formed in London, England on 20 May 1913 to produce opera glasses for theatres in London. The company's purpose was to