The History Of Glass And Its Use In Property Windows

The history of glass windows made its original journey when the Romans in 100 AD used glass in villas and buildings where the prestigious were housed. The glass produced by the Romans has been found across Europe, in the Mediterranean, and in China. German Craftsmen in the eleventh century discovered that by taking small pieces of glass and putting them together with lead they could create larger more intricate designs, now known as stained glass.

Over the centuries glass became available by the use of machines to form bottles, vases and small decorative items until 1914 when a gentleman residing in Belgium by the name of Fourcault founded a discovery that would allow him to make a continuous sheet of glass in a tank.

A tank furnace was designed at the end of the industrial revolution for replacement of the pot furnace. This new furnace was able to produce excessively large amounts of molten glass compared to the pot furnace. Following Fourcault was Colburn, an American that expanded on ideas passed along by Fourcaults and found better ways to produce sheet glass.

His design was later adapted into the Libby Owens company as well as the Pittsburgh process that utilized both Fourcault and Colburns systems in 1928 to design a better system, which continues to be in use today. The end of the Victorian era when glass was being machine made was less expensive and more accessible.

The Great exhibition of 1851 influenced the interest of glass and its many uses with the Crystal Palace, a structure made entirely of glass which succeeded the trend for homes everywhere to implement the use of glass windows for safety, decor and protection against the elements, replacing the wood previously used to cover open areas.

The history of glass windows has taken many turns throughout the years from thick small pieces, stained glass and thin easily breakable pieces to the new as well as popular construction of Plexiglas. Plexiglas is the choice for many when it comes to new or replacement windows, however, many of the older homes continue to have the thin glass mounted in wooden frames.

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