The demand for glass products increased in the late 18-th - early 19-th century. Glass was used in optics, pharmacy, bottles as a packing container appeared in a daily life, etc. Simultaneously the window glass production growth to a separate industrial branch. The furnaces with high chimneys appeared, the British started to make lead crystal - a soft, suitable for grinding and polishing glass type. Glass blowing industry in Galicia began to compete with such highly developed factories in Austria-Hungary as Bohemia, Silesia, which had a very strong traditions of grinding, engraving and painting on glass, mirror manufacturing, parts of chandeliers and candelabra, glass jewelry. During the Napoleonic wars these regions entered a period of protracted crisis that has caused the migration of glass masters into other regions of Europe, including Galicia.