Rolled plate is a type of industrially produced

glass Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline solid, non-crystalline) solid. Because it is often transparency and translucency, transparent and chemically inert, glass has found widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in window pane ...

. It was invented and patented by James Hartley circa 1847. Rolled-plate glass is used

architecturally Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings ...

; in the mid-19th century, uses included roofing railway stations and greenhouses.

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