by Rebecca A. Fratzke
Most people think of them as simple souvenirs, but some snow globes are works of art.
The idea is not very
complicated. It's just a small scene in a glass ball with
a bunch of fake
flakes _(1)_ around the water inside. There is something about snow globes, once called snowstorms, waterglobes, and snowdomes, that brings smiles to people's faces. These
spherical objects that sometimes have
built-in music boxes are so _(2)_ that everyone wants to pick them up and give them a gentle shake.
It is hard to say whether anyone
expected snow globes
to be as popular today as when they were first _(3)_ to the world at the Paris Universal
Expo in 1878. What is known, however, is that they were a huge _(4)_ then. Just one year later, five companies were
hurriedly filling _(5)_ from all across Europe. It wasn't until the 1920s that snow globes became popular
collectors' items in America.
Although snow globes are said to have been _(6)_ in France during the early 19th century, it was the Expo and an
unknown instrument technician that
popularized them. This
mystery man is Erwin Perzy, an Austrian. Perzy began testing his own design after failing in an
experiment to _(7)_
light bulbs. Though he did not make rooms more
illuminated, he did find his invention lovely to _(8)_. Soon after, a friend asked Perzy to create a miniature of a famous
basilica in Austria. Perzy _(9)_ the miniature with his invention and created what would soon be the first
patented snow globe design. The Perzy family is still in the snow globe business today. They also _(10)_ the Snow Globe Museum in Vienna. From toys to treasures, snow globes
capture a magic that people of all ages can
appreciate.
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