What Are Plate Glass Windows?
Plate glass windows are windows that are created by using a twin grinding and polishing process. Plate glass is characterised by the creation of larger sheets of glass but became a term that is used for everyday window glass. Sir Alistair Pilkington developed the float glass method in the 1950s, which came to make the twin grinding and polishing process obsolete. This method makes glass by floating molten glass on a bed of molten tin, giving the sheet uniform thickness and a flat surface. The glass windows that are manufactured today are actually float glass windows, not sheet glass or plate glass windows.
