Abstract
Safety glass is defined as “glass” that diminishes the threat of injuries and robberies as a result of impacts, distortion, or fire. In 1905 British inventor John C. Wood was working with cellulose and developed a method to adhere glass panes using celluloid as the adhesive. Wood’s version of shatter-resistant glass was produced under the bandname Triplex because it consisted of outer layers of glass with an inner layer of celluloid polymer.About the same time, Edouard Benedictus, a French chemist, was climbing a ladder to get chemicals from a shelf and accidently (another discovery due to an accident) knocked a glass flask onto the floor.