| Information about Glass A revolutionary event in the history of glass was the invention of glass blowing around three hundred years B.C. by the Phoenicians. Glass is made from the simplest materials, a silica such as sand, a flux like wood ash or soda, with lime.
Yet from these humble beginnings comes an astonishing substance which has served man for some - five thousand years! It can be turned into a myriad of shapes and colours, and used in countless functions. |
Glass can be very beautiful, its properties are unparalleled and our dependence on it in our daily lives, absolute.
Glass : a solid material of no crystalline structure, a super cooled liquid, that is a substance that has passed from a liquid into a rigid state without structural change. |
