Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work (1912)
American Technical Society · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 350
ed glass, wire glass,or prisms. Of these va-rieties, the prisms and the ribbed or corrugated are the best,since they give a more uniform light and are not easily broken.Wire glass, which is made of wire netting moulded in the middle ofthe sheet of glass, gives a very good light, and has the… … of a Slidintr-SasUWindow. Section of a Monit<Swing VViuilow. 283 70 ROOF TRUSSES very liable to fracture, and for this reason the inside of the windowshould be covered with wire netting. Prisms are made by theAmerican Luxfer Prism Company, of Chicago. They may beobtained up to 84 inches in width…
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