Today we bring you the history of glass fishing floats. You may be familiar with these or perhaps saw them before and had not realized the purpose of these hollow glass balls. 

Glass floats were made to be used in ocean fishing, to keep large fishing nets from sinking. They can range in size from a golf ball to a grapefruit to even triple the size of a soccer ball.

Many people think that they originated in Japan, but can actually be traced back to Norway in 1844 and then later to Japan in 1910. By the 1940's many other countries had also started making and using glass fl...