Criticism of "buried floors"

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

I will present to the reader only one, applicable to a large part of the "mysterious" basements, the most logical and adequate - the simplest of all "dug up" on the Internet - version that in connection with the established tradition, possibly regulated by some town planning norms concerning the number of storeys of buildings in more or less large settlements (where the cost of land was (and still remains) high), buildings (historically not so long ago, conditionally mid-19th - early 20th centuries) were originally erected with practical basements of a specific design, allowing natural lighting and convenient approaches, perhaps even deliveries, for goods and cargo (concerned buildings with warehouses, shops or shops on the ground floors) or firewood and coal (for heating the overlying premises, which concerned apartment buildings), as well as several Conspiracy these very basements and protect from weather influences, evil eyes and attackers on other people's property.

During that period, the glass industry in our country and abroad achieved great success.

"The history of the glass block began in the middle of the 19th century in the USA. It was not at all like those blocks that we are used to seeing. The purebred" American "was a thick iron grating with glass inserts. It was used as a light window to illuminate basements, especially since the glass itself was "with a secret."

The American company Luxfer Prism Company was the first to invent and patented prisms inside two welded glass blocks, thanks to which the basement was as bright during the day as in an ordinary room, which helped to avoid wasting electricity. And the technology of glass with a prism was patented by the owner of the company, James Penquick, in 1882.

Light windows "Luxfer" were a great success …"

"In Russia, similar light gratings were produced at the beginning of the 20th century, they can be seen in GUM, in the courtyard of a residential building on Solyanka Street ½, as well as near a number of houses on Myasnitskaya Street. In the USA and in a number of European countries, light gratings are still produced today.."

The First World War and the subsequent revolutionary events, the civil war and the reorganization of society prevented the widespread dissemination of modern technologies at that time. The restoration and establishment of glass production led … Yes, you understood everything correctly, to the appearance of those very Soviet glass blocks, which are widely used in industrial and civil buildings.

Now that such a "sinkhole" will not surprise anyone?

And for dessert, an image of a modern version of basement lighting.