Window glass
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Description
A transparent, flat, glass sheet used for glazing windows. Window glass has been made by several techniques. These include glass crown glass (17th century), glass cylinder glass (mass produced in the 1830s), glass float glass (1959) and glass insulated glass.
Synonyms and Related Terms
vitre (Fr.); vidraa (Port.)
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Authority
- G.S.Brady, G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 363
- Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996
- Thomas C. Jester (ed.), Thomas C. Jester (ed.), Twentieth-Century Building Materials, McGraw-Hill Companies, Washington DC, 1995
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, at http://www.wikipedia.com Comment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window (Accessed Nov. 29, 2005)