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1996 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Flat glass
Author : Heinz G. Pfaender
Published in: Schott Guide to Glass
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The term flat glass pertains to all glasses produced in a flat form, regardless of the method of manufacture. Unlike hollow-ware, it was not until the Middle Ages that glassblowers were finally successful in making flat sheets of glass for windows and further processing. Mechanical production processes were developed much later, effectively after 1920 (apart from some tentative earlier beginnings). Today manual production of flat glasses is the exception rather than the rule.