From “wind eye” to Manhattan glass towers — the history of windows is far weirder than it looks.
This episode traces how humans spent thousands of years trying to answer one deceptively simple question: how do you let light in without letting everything else in too? From Norse smoke holes and “eye-holes” in medieval walls to parchment, pig bladders, cattle horn, Roman bathhouse glass, stained cathedral windows, Britain’s disastrous window tax, and the invention of modern float glass, this is the hidden story behind one of the most ordinary things in your home.
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00:00 Intro
02:11 Light Or Warmth
04:47 Medieval Window Experiments
06:33 Rome Invents Glass Windows
10:43 Glassblowing Changes Everything
13:06 Cathedrals Keep Glass Alive
14:12 Crown Glass And Better Panes
17:25 The Window Tax Disaster
21:45 Glass Becomes Ordinary
23:31 The Float Glass Breakthrough
25:37 Four Thousand Years Of Progress
27:21 Outro
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