Through a Looking Glass
by Marcia Lee Jones
Title
Through a Looking Glass
Artist
Marcia Lee Jones
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Photograph - Photography
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The earliest windows were just holes in a wall. Later, windows were covered with animal hide, cloth, or wood. Shutters that could be opened and closed came next. Over time, windows were built that both protected the inhabitants from the elements and transmitted light: mullioned glass windows, which joined multiple small pieces of glass with leading, paper windows, flattened pieces of translucent animal horn, and plates of thinly sliced marble. In the Far East, paper was used to fill windows.[4]
The Romans were the first known to use glass for windows, a technology likely first produced in Roman Egypt�In Alexandria ca. 100 AD, cast glass windows, albeit with poor optical properties, began to appear�but these were small thick productions, little more than blown glass jars (cylindrical shapes) flattened out into sheets with circular striation patterns throughout. It would be over a millennium before a window glass became transparent enough to see through clearly, as we think of it now.
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October 28th, 2013
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