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Wired Glass - All you need to know | News on Crunch

Glasses are an important part of our Building construction. Around 5000 BCE, Egypt first made glasses for jewelry. Although, manufacturing instructions for glass making were written around 650 BCE. And, as Mankind evolved so much and so did the function of Glasses. From those evolution, came the Wired Glass with its unique properties. Frank Shuman was the first one to invent these glasses. Glasses can be used as Load bearing walls or Non-Load bearing walls. Both these are increasing the aesthetics of houses and have different properties. Wired Glasses are used as Non-Load bearing. We always suggest to readers whatever construction materials you choose should be based on their uses. Introduction Wired Glasses are produced by embedding wire nets into the center of sheet glass during casting. The thickness of embedding wire should be around 0.46 to 0.56 mm. The glass produced should have a minimum thickness of 6 mm. The wire added to glass does not increase the str...