late 1840's privy-dug emerald green glass iron-pontiled mineral or soda water bottle manufactured for philadlephia bottler eugene roussel. the soda shaped bottle has steep shoulders and a long narrow neck finished with an applied collar. the front of the glass has a star embossed at the shoulder, and on the body is embossed "e. roussel / philad.a" with the abbreviated city and raised end-letter 'a'. on the other side embossing reads "dyottville glassworks / r / philad.a / this bottle / is never sold", with some casewear at the top. the base has a shallow kickup with heavy residue from manufacture with iron pontil. crudities typical of its age and date of manufacture include whittling and allover bubbles, and surface scratches. eugene roussel was an important manufacturer of perfumes and later soda water in philadelphia. eugene roussel came to philadelphia in 1838. and immediately set up a perfumery where he made fancy soaps and toiletries, and additionally had a mineral water fountain. xavier bazin, roussel's lab director throughout the 1840's, bought the perfumery business from him when roussel wanted to focus on his mineral water venture, continuing to use roussel’s name until 1853. between 1840-1844 there was an explosion of bottlers, caused largely by the craze for eugene roussel’s bottled soda and mineral waters; in 1838 or 1839 roussel bottled the first syruped soda water, a lemon flavor. he innovated in the taste and quality of bottled waters using his training in a parisian perfumery and lab to invent recipes that were more palatable, with none of the medicinal or bland qualities soda water of the time commonly had. the craze he created was so great that public demand for bottles triggered the reopening of the closed dyottville factories in 1842. roussel is credited as being the first to flavor his waters with fruit juices, or the first to bottle flavored soda water; neither is technically correct, though he is the first to have made a success of it and thus garners credit as the “father of the american bottled soda water industry".