original and intact c. late 1850's privy dug richly colored emerald green soda bottle manufactured for philadelphia bottler eugene roussel. the slim body has high-shoulders and a long and narrow neck with significant whittling, finished with an applied rounded collar or blobtop. it features a clean strike, with characteristic large open-lined lettering embossing the name "e.roussel" around the body. underneath this, the city of manufacture, "philad." is embossed in block lettering just above the front heel. the base is smooth and evidences manufacture with keyed hinge mold. crudities are typical of age and date of manufacture, including bubbles, surface wear and discoloration. the glass was dug and has allover irridization that lends appealing crudity, in the form of wavy, nearly incised lines of patination. the bottle was fabricated by the dyottville glassworks kensington, pa. 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; he continued to use roussel’s name until 1853. between 1840-1844 there was an explosion of bottlers in the region, 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".