Daniel Swarovski was an Austria

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n glass cutter and jeweller born in Bohemia

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. His father was a glass cutter who owned a small glass factory, and Swarovski first learned the art of glass-cutting in his father's factory. In 1892 he patented an electric cutting machine that facilitated the production of lead crystal glass jewellery.