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Tatjana, an employee of the 'Original Vienna Snowglobe Factory', assembles a snowglobe in Vienna, Austria on November 29, 2023.

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Video. How the snow globe was invented more than a century ago... by accident

Updated: 05/12/2023 - 7:31 GMT+1

In the early 1900s, Vienna-based surgical instrument maker Erwin Perzy was asked to create a bright surgical lightbulb, but instead, he invented the snow globe.

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