This is the history of the origins of the mirror

Diposting oleh ale on Jumat, 21 Oktober 2011

Reflecting on the Mirror's one thing to do every day, whether it's morning, noon or night, there are even some people, especially girls who spent countless hours in front of the mirror let alone the newly pubescent teenager in love again or someone who falls in love or in love.
The mirror can help a person to know and assess the physical shortcomings of his own from the start dressing style of dress, even gayu hair makeup etc. multifunctional alias., But do you know the history of the mirror?
Prior to the present form, people have tried different materials and ways. One of them sharpening of obsidian that can be seen in Konya Archaeological Museum and the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara, Turkey. While in Roman times and Middle Ages in Europe in the form of sheet metal - bronze, pewter, or silver. The mirrors that reflect light from the surface of the fine-honed smooth.
Around the end of the 12th century, the clever glass in Venice began to develop a mixture of tin and mercury, which could reflect the shadows. The masters of the Venetian mirror in the labor union founded in 1569, whose membership is characterized by a cylindrical glass furnaces which flattened, sharpened, and fitted sheet reflective of a mixture of tin and mercury. In the mid-17th century, the skills to make a mirror of the coated glass was spread to London and Paris.
At the end of the 17th century, the mirror has become expensive work. He became a trimmer Palace of Versailles. No longer naked, but framed. In fact, mirror frames became a marker of time. Frame material ranged from ivory, silver, ebony, tortoiseshell lacquered with olives and walnuts, until the beads and stitching.
From this came the artists range perbingkaian Grinling Gibbons (1642 - 1721) with a frame berpahatnya. British designer also, Robert and James Adams, who unfurled the fireplace to create a certain effect on the mirror. The design of the frame is also growing, not should always be hung on the wall, legs can be made to stand. Making mirrors in large quantities and a smaller form factor makes it more expensive to the most affordable bag.
While the nobles and the commoners to treat the mirror as a room decoration or to assist in conducting herself, some scientists such as Roger Bacon (1220 - 1292) and Isaac Newton in 1668 further highlights the ability to collect light. Together with lenses, mirrors utilized in perfecting the manufacture of binoculars. In times of war or exploration of nature, the mirror can also be used as a secret code or 'language' thanks to the reflection of sunlight falling on its surface. When the mirror digerak moving, the reflected light can be seen from a distance.
Chemical glass coatings were developed. Justus von Liebig in 1835 found a layer of metallic silver which is celebrated as a modern technique in the manufacture of mirrors. At the present time, the mirror is generally made with a thin layer of splatter molten aluminum or silver to one side of the glass. There are many manufacturing techniques, but many are convinced that the mirror is perfectly still mirror made of tin deposition by spray technique.

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