AtlasGermanyJenaOne word pinned hereJena50.9272°N 11.5864°E · Q3150One English word in this atlas traces back to Jena. It sits in Germany.ShareAll of Germany Pinned hereJena glassnoun · late 19th centuryWell attestedModern laboratory glassware was invented in one small Thuringian university town.Otto Schott worked out borosilicate compositions at Jena with Ernst Abbe and Carl Zeiss, and the glassworks he founded in 1884 supplied thermometers and vessels that did not crack when heated. The American equivalent, Pyrex, followed the same chemistry a generation later.Named for a product of the placeRead →Nearest pinsfichteliteFichtel Mountains, Germany99 kmGerman measlesGermany, Germany111 kmGerman shepherdGermany, Germany111 kmdollarJáchymov, Czech Republic111 km