I've ordered some little windows for a project and I see it uses a type of tempered glass called #Stalinite !?
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I've ordered some little windows for a project and I see it uses a type of tempered glass called #Stalinite !?
Can't find much on it, other than products mentioning its use. One mention says it was invented in Donbas, Ukraine glass factories in 1934. Is that the original name of our standard tempered glass? Sounds the same as the stuff used in car windows which shatter into beads rather than shards.
Weird that the name is still used. I took a pass on Hitlerium flooring products though.
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Reading more on tempered glass in general, there's a French inventor (de la Bastie) in the 19th century that invents it, patenting it in UK in 1874. Then a German (Siemens) makes a stronger version shortly after.
Then an Austrian (Seiden) moves to the US in 1935 and patents a version.
So the 1934 Donbas version predates the US patent, but is likely just borrowed from the French/German earlier work.
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