Introduction

"If you think glass is weak, think again... glass is used for the space shuttle's windows, for covering the tallest skyscrapers, in optical fiber cable buried in trenches under the ocean, and for bullet proof windows in combat vehicles. Glass has been designed into the most hostile environments known... as a re-entry heat shield for Apollo space capsules, to store the most reactive and noxious chemicals, as observation windows near the hot zones of nuclear reactors, and as a hull for a submarine under development to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Why is it that glass fiber is used to reinforce engineering polymers and concrete, but never the other way around? Hmmm?

Glass is anything but weak."



Dr. Peter Bocko