LIGHT IN A BRICK
NEW STRIDE BY SCIENCE HOUSES OF THE FUTURE It was in peacetime that the first house of glass was seen at Olympia, but glass houses would be sa'dly out of fashion now. Yet their day will come again, and in America a hollow glass brick which can be made to supply its own light from within is already on the market.
In the daytime the house or apartment walled with these glass bricks will allow light to come in evenly, supplying enough light from floor to ceiling without windows. The inside of the glass brick is coated with a fluorescent material which glows when an electric current is passed through the brick, and ultraviolet rays fall on the inner surface and make it light up. In short, the brick is transparent by day and a lamp by night.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3134, 22 June 1942, Page 6
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142LIGHT IN A BRICK Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3134, 22 June 1942, Page 6
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