In our globalized 21st century, glass can be found almost everywhere, and its uses are on the rise. We will look at when glass was invented, natural glass, and more in this history of glass production. The glass in your window frames has completed a remarkable journey over the past 5,000 years.
From reading your watch in the morning to checking the weather outside to defrost your windscreen on a cold winter morning, spending your workday in front of computer monitors, laptops, and tablets, to watching television in the evening, we spend the majority of our days on technology. Most of us have at least one piece of glass in our line of sight – even if we don’t wear glasses.
Glass originated from sand – a material many of us wish we were closer to on a more regular basis. From melting sand, glass was ‘invented.’
Nowadays, this is rarely a naturally occurring phenomenon since sand requires a temperature of at least 1700 °C (3090 °F) to undergo glassification (the transformation of sand into glass). As a result, evolution took a long time to develop the tools required to advance glass. Let’s examine the history of glassmaking…
Explore how sand transforms into screen – forming the display technologies we use today – by reading the history, recipe, and amazing process of how ancient sand becomes screen.
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