Continuing the brick theme, in the last article, I want to draw your attention to the glass theme.
So the same end of the 19th century. In the photographs we see the massive use of glass around the world. There were no bullish bubbles in the windows. There was glass and there was a lot of glass.
This is in England.
Industrial buildings were logically built with maximum transparency - light is needed.:)
Weaving factory.
The same brick and glass.
Baltic plant.
Here is a photo of just a 19th century city. Where is the wooden house building with mica in the windows? Stone and quite high quality glass!
Promotional video:
Photo by Peter.
Do you know how to make glass?
Careers need to be developed with something in the industry. scales. These are not shovels, but mining dump trucks and excavators. You can transport it by trains, okay. Furnaces are not simple - the temperature must be strictly maintained, the glass mass must be mixed. The tin bath over which the glass spreads must also be heated.
Warmed with coal? Now gas, electricity. And if we admit that even then they were heated with gas, it means that we recognize industrial gas production, gas pipelines at least to factories, and hence pipes with sealed joints and valves and a bunch of other crap. Then maybe the conspiracy theorists are not lying that gas was everywhere? Are gas lamps the rule rather than the exception? And fireplaces are not a means of heating a home?
And in the end - two photos of the same pavilion.
Glass was replaced with galvanized sheets … There is no money to contain … And this means that THEN - glass was generally available and not expensive! It was cheaper to build a building out of glass than to artificially light it. Although this is also a question … judging by the electric illumination on the engravings and earlier times, these were not particularly problems either … Although here, perhaps the main word EARLIER.