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We look through it every day and yes we take it for granted but there is a lot more to it than our ancestors -who first discovered that sand at the rim of volcanoes when subject to intense heat would melt and then solidify into the hard translucent material they used for arrow heads \u2013 could ever have thought possible.<\/p>\n
We marvel at the manner in which technology has changed our lives and yet we forget about good old glass \u2013 it is so woven into our everyday life that in the main we do not notice it \u2013 but glass is a commodity that has changed our lives as much as any other technology and it comes in so many variations with so many uses \u2013 glass for windows may be a major use but it only covers a small portion of this amazing products capabilities see https:\/\/www.britglass.org.uk\/about-glass<\/a> for the history development and uses of glass.<\/p>\n One of the latest innovations is the use of glass in observation platforms such as the Grand Canyon Skywalk –<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But even this has been topped by the opening of the world\u2019s longest glass suspension bridge in where else but China aptly named the \u201cBrave Man\u2019s Bridge\u201d at 984 feet long suspended 590 feet above the canyon floor below this is a truly superb feat of engineering<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The bridge apparently started life as a timber decked structure before it was decided to replace some of the timber with glass panels \u2013 the result was so successful that the whole bridge decking was re modelled in glass it certainly impressed the guys at Popular Mechanics<\/a> who have some pretty spectacular photographs in their report \u2013 but the photograph we at GFD HQ like best has to be \u2013<\/p>\n <\/p>\n which is pretty much how we in the office think that we would end up getting across \u2013 not that we are scared of heights but even those flashing glass disco dance floors are a bit much for us.<\/p>\n At Timber Composite Door we take our glass seriously all of our glazing components are double glazed \u2013with toughened glass as standard \u2013 but \u2013 Toughened glass is good but laminated is better. Whereas toughened glass by its very name is considerably harder to break than \u201cFloat \/ sheet glass\u201d, toughened glass will shatter, if struck particularly hard in the correct place, and those who would wish to gain unlawful entry will know how to do it. The alternative to toughened glass is \u201cLaminated glass\u201d<\/em><\/strong> a form of glass with which we have become very familiar in the construction of car windscreens and now in the construction of glass suspension bridges.<\/p>\n