How insulated glass changed architecture
No pain, no gain.
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00:02- It's 1960 and look how
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undefined:undefinedthat he adorned his lab
00:33with non-frosting window panes
00:37and newspapers around the
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undefined:undefineda change in skyscrapers,
00:53from ones that look like this
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01:28for hundreds, thousands of
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undefined:undefinedvery, very large windows
01:47to bring daylight,
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02:06of not being able to have
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undefined:undefinedpretty good insulator,
02:18but the problem is that it has
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02:32- [Phil] As electricity got cheaper
02:33and more places started using
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undefined:undefinedthem clearly, like real windows.
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03:05So there has to be a wall
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undefined:undefinedengineer in Milwaukee.
03:29- This engineer realizes
03:31that if you can double the the glass
03:35and between those two layers of glass,
03:37take out all of the humid air
03:39and replace it with dried air,
03:41air with all the water taken out,
03:42you can get not only the insulating value
03:45of the two pieces of glass,
03:46but that thin layer of air in between
03:49does a really, really good
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undefined:undefinedthey extended the line
04:17and soon that double-pane
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04:35Thermopane gets going,
04:37but then competitors do
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04:53because it has two layers of glass.
04:55I would say by the 1960s, if
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undefined:undefinedworld and your outside world.
05:51- I noticed this blanket of
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undefined:undefinedbeauty of walls of glass,
06:09merging room with room,
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06:30and start seeing the future.
06:31(dreamy retro music)