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Re: Can I glass you a question?
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lugnet.castle
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Tue, 12 Mar 2002 02:21:26 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Adam Murtha writes:
> I've been admiring my (Dan's) Blacksmith Shop, and I got thinking about the
> upstairs windows. Did they have glass in the 'castle era?'
Well, Glassmaking was invented 3,300 years ago in Mesopotamia and Syria.
Instructions were written down on cuneiform tablets and passed down from
generation to generation, so to answer your question they did have glass in
the middle ages.
Hope That Helps
>La8r<
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| (...) Despite the existence of glass in the period, and its use in windows from at least the Roman period forward, it was an imperfect (and very expensive!) science. Glass windows were usually restricted to composite panes and religious glass (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| I've been admiring my (Dan's) Blacksmith Shop, and I got thinking about the upstairs windows. Did they have glass in the 'castle era?' (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.castle)
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