I SAW FACE IN GRINDSTONE

Did you know Narcissus? He is a character in Greek mythology is dead because of admiring her reflection reflected off the surface of the lake forgot to eat. Had he lived today, he can admire himself without having to forget to eat. Simply plug the mirror in the dining room or even the entire house. Looking in the mirror is very easy nowadays. Because, it becomes an integral object, primarily for women who like to preen. No wonder, when there are manufacturers who make mobile phones one screen into a mirror. Compared with the lens or translucent glass, the mirror has a metal layer on one side. Prior to the present form, humans have tried different materials and ways. One of them hone of obsidian that can be seen in the Konya Archaeological Museum and the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara, Turkey. While in Roman times and medieval Europe in the form of sheet metal, bronze, tin or silver. The mirrors that reflect light from the surface of finely-honed smooth. Around the end of the 12th century, the smart glass in Venice began to develop a mixture of tin and mercury, which can reflect the shadow. Venetian mirror makers that set up trade unions in 1569, whose membership is characterized by a cylindrical glass furnaces which flattened, sharpened and fitted sheet reflective of a mixture of tin and mercury. In the mid 17th century, the skills to make a mirror of the coated glass was spread to London and Paris. In the late 17th century, the mirror has become expensive work. It became decorator Palace of Versailles. No longer naked but framed. In fact, mirror frames instead be a marker of time. The material spans the frame of ivory, silver, ebony, tortoiseshell lacquered with olive and walnut to the beads and stitching. From this emerges a kind artist Grinling Gibbons (1642-1721) with a carved frame. Also the British designer, Robert and James Adams, who unfurled a fireplace to create a certain effect on the mirror. The design of the frame also continue to grow not have to always be hung on the wall, legs can be made to stand. Making a mirror in large quantities and smaller form makes it more expensive to affordable prices. While the nobles and commoners treat the mirror as a room decoration or to help see themselves, some scientists like Roger Bacon (1220-1292) and Isaac Newton in 1668 further highlights the ability to gather light. Together with the lens, the mirror used in perfecting the manufacture of binoculars. In times of war or exploration of nature, the mirror can also be used as a secret code or language thanks to the reflection of sunlight falling on its surface. When moving the reflection mirror digerak light can be seen from a distance. Chemical coating of glass was developed, Justus Von Liebig in 1835 found a silver metallic coating expressed as modern techniques in the manufacture of mirrors. At the present time, the mirror is generally made with the splatter of aluminum or silver thin layer of liquid to one side of the glass. There are many manufacturing techniques, but many are convinced that the perfect mirror mirror still made of tin deposition by spray technique. It's a mirror you today?