Glass can be coloured by adding metal salts or painted and printed with vitreous enamels, leading to its use in stained glass windows and other glass art objects. The refractive, reflective...
[9] Some types of smart films can be applied to existing glass windows using either a self... Technology, who was brainstorming ideas for making building materials more energy efficient...
The colored glass is crafted into stained glass windows in which small pieces of glass are arranged to form patterns or pictures, held together (traditionally) by strips of lead, called...
Murano, who covered the back of the glass with a mercury-tin... 1843: An early form of "float glass" invented by Henry... Cast glass windows, albeit with poor optical qualities, began to...
Who invented glass? ; Naturally occurring glass, such as volcanic glass obsidian, has been used by stone-age man for the production of weapons, ornaments and money. The place and date of origin of manufactured glass is not completely known. According to Pliny the Elder, ancient Roman historian, Phoenician merchants deserve the credit for the discovery of glass in the region of Syria. The tradition is that a merchant ship laden with nitrum being moored at this place, the merchants were preparing their meal on the beach, and not having stones to ...
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A glass-bottom boat showing undersea windows on the Great... History [edit] The glass-bottom boat was invented in 1878 by... Davidson and Carl Ray, who developed a gasoline-powered glass...
1 Double-paned windows 3.2 Low-emissivity coating 4 See also 5... Continuous plate production was invented in 1848 by Henry Bessemer, who drew a ribbon of glass through rollers. This...