Rolled plate is a type of industrially produced

glass Glass is a non-Crystallinity, crystalline, often transparency and translucency, transparent, amorphous solid that has widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optics. Glass is most ...

. It was invented and patented by James Hartley circa 1847. Rolled plate is used architecturally; for example, in the mid-19th century uses for rolled plate glass included roofing railway stations and greenhouses.

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