RESISTANCE TO BLAST
NEW TYPES OF WINDOWS IN BRITAIN. PROOF AGAINST SPLINTERING. “Blitz” blast need no longer send glass splinters flying in all directions during air raids over Britain this winter. The British Government’s Experimental Building Research Station at Watford has successfully tested three new alternatives to unprotected glass windows. The first is used in place of window glass. It consists of netting embedded in thick cellulose acetate film which lets in light and keeps out rain. There is a heavier variety to take the place of north lights, roof lights or other glass on which -there is a heavy strain. It equals quarter-inch plate glass in strength. A third device is a lighter form of cellulose netting fixed to window panes by adhesive. A square of plate glass covered with this netting was put under a spring-loaded hammer which was brought down upon it, travelling one-eighth of an inch beyond the point of impact.
The shattered glass remained neatly in position under the netting.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19411107.2.12
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1941, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
165RESISTANCE TO BLAST Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1941, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.