Glass Power

When the 17th century final arrived, the glass made in europe had become cheap enough for the ordinary non wealthy person to use it for, initially their windows. The glass panes didn’t only protect the people from the elements, but also made sure that lots of light was let into their homes, and the light, prompted a massive leap forward in their hygiene. London Glazing know the power of glass. This was because all of a sudden the vermin and dirt that was hidden by the dark was seen so they became clean and free of disease. This definitely contributed to the elinination of the plague in europe by early in the 18th century. The mid-19th century, the easy sterilisatuion of swan-necked glass flasks helped the French chemist Louis Pasteur disprove the theory that germs spontaneously generated from rotting matter. This was a revolution in the understanding of disease. Not too long after, the glass light bulb changed work and leisure completely and with the turn of the 20th century, new ways of laminating made glass tougher and safer than it everhad been up until then.

The Glass King (1368-1422).
France’s King Charles VI suffered from repeated hallucinations that his whole body was made of glass and tha in order to protect himself he needed to carry iron in his clothing. He was not surprisingly known as Charles the Mad and Charles the Well Beloved. London Glaziers supply all types of glass.

Very Clever Glass.
With the appearance of spectacles near the end of the 13th century, around 15 years of extra working time was added to the academic and scientific careers of those men whose work totally relied on reading books etc. It was the 17th century, when the philosopher Baruch Spinoza earned his living grindind lenses, which allowed him to practice his philosophy without private funding, but probably contributed to his early death from a lung illness in 1677. The glass mirror was believed to have been used by Filippo Brunelleschi in his experiments to understand the laws of perspective, which would have a huge impact on Renaissance painting. Microscopes and the telescopes, were invented at the end of the 16th century, and they opened up two new universes, the far away and the very close.