Window Wikipedia. A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof or vehicle that allows the passage of light, sound, and air. Modern windows are usually glazed or covered in some other transparent or translucent material, a sash set in a frame1 in the opening the sash and frame are also referred to as a window. 2 Many glazed windows may be opened, to allow ventilation, or closed, to exclude inclement weather. Windows often have a latch or similar mechanism to lock the window shut or to hold it open by various amounts. Types include the eyebrow window, fixed windows, single hung and double hung sash windows, horizontal sliding sash windows, casement windows, awning windows, hopper windows, tilt and slide windows often door sized, tilt and turn windows, transom windows, sidelight windows, jalousie or louvered windows, clerestory windows, skylights, roof windows, roof lanterns, bay windows, oriel windows, thermal, or Diocletian, windows, picture windows, emergency exit windows, stained glass windows, French windows, panel windows, and double and triple paned windows. The Romans were the first known to use glass for windows, a technology likely first produced in Roman Egypt, in Alexandria ca. AD. Paper windows were economical and widely used in ancient China, Korea and Japan. Wilke Window Door, your commercial residential windows doors specialist, has been serving St. Louis Southern Illinois for over 50 years with showrooms in. Egress Window Cost ONLY 1,995 6122310010 Call Us Today Experienced Minnesota Egress Window Installers. Code Compliant Egress Window Installation. Manufactures joist and truss hangers, brick ties, hurricane clips, straps, and holdowns, as well as special and custom welded hangers. In England, glass became common in the windows of ordinary homes only in the early 1. In the 1. 9th century American west, greased paper windows came to be used by itinerant groups. Modern style floor to ceiling windows became possible only after the industrial plateglass making processes were fully perfected. EtymologyeditThe English language word window originates from the Old Norse vindauga, from vindr wind and auga eye, i. In Norwegian. Nynorsk and Icelandic the Old Norse form has survived to this day in Icelandic only as a less used synonym to gluggi, in Swedish the word vindga remains as a term for a hole through the roof of a hut, and in the Danish language vindue and Norwegian Bokml vindu, the direct link to eye is lost, just like for window. The Danish but not the Bokml word is pronounced fairly similarly to window. Window is first recorded in the early 1. Window replaced the Old Englisheagyrl, which literally means eye hole, and eagduru eye door. Many Germanic languages however adopted the Latin word fenestra to describe a window with glass, such as standard. Swedish fnster, or German Fenster. The use of window in English is probably because of the Scandinavian influence on the English language by means of loanwords during the Viking Age. In English the word fenester was used as a parallel until the mid 1. Fenestration is still used to describe the arrangement of windows within a faade, as well as defenestration, meaning to throw something out of a window. Historyedit. Fragment of a Roman window glass plate dated to 1st to 4th century A. D. Note the obvious curvature, this is not a flat pane. Alabaster mullion divided decorative windows in Santa Maria La Major church Morella, Spain. Alabaster window in the Valencia Cathedral. Note the asymmetrical, slanted left side of the wall frame, which lets sun rays reach the chancel. In the 1. 3th century BC, the earliest windows were unglazed openings in a roof to admit light during the day. Later,when windows were covered with animal hide, cloth, or wood. Shutters that could be opened and closed came next. when Over time, windows were built that both protected the inhabitants from the elements and transmitted light, using multiple small pieces of translucent material, such as flattened pieces of translucent animal horn, thin slices of marble, for example fengite, or pieces of glass, set in frameworks of wood, iron or lead. In the Far East, paper was used to fill windows. 1 The Romans were the first known to use glass for windows, a technology likely first produced in Roman Egypt. Namely, in Alexandria ca. AD cast glass windows, albeit with poor optical properties, began to appear, but these were small thick productions, little more than blown glass jars cylindrical shapes flattened out into sheets with circular striation patterns throughout. It would be over a millennium before a window glass became transparent enough to see through clearly, as we think of it now. Over the centuries techniques were developed to shear through one side of a blown glass cylinder and produce thinner rectangular window panes from the same amount of glass material. This gave rise to tall narrow windows, usually separated by a vertical support called a mullion. Mullioned glass windows were the windows of choice among European well to do, whereas paper windows were economical and widely used in ancient China, Korea and Japan. In England, glass became common in the windows of ordinary homes only in the early 1. Modern style floor to ceiling windows became possible only after the industrial plateglass making processes were perfected. Modern windows are usually filled with glass, although a few are transparent plastic. 1EyebroweditThe term eyebrow window is used in two ways a curved top window in a wall or in an eyebrow dormer and a row of small windows usually under the front eaves such as the James Lorah House in Pennsylvania. 5A fixed window is a window that cannot be opened,6 whose function is limited to allowing light to enter unlike an unfixed window, which can open and close. Clerestory windows in church architecture are often fixed. Transom windows may be fixed or operable. This type of window is used in situations where light or vision alone is needed as no ventilation is possible windows without the use of trickle vents or overglass vents. Single hung sasheditA single hung sash window is a window that has one sash that is movable usually the bottom one and the other fixed. This is the earlier form of sliding sash window, and is also cheaper. 1Double hung sasheditA sash window is the traditional style of window in the United Kingdom, and many other places that were formerly colonized by the UK, with two parts sashes that overlap slightly and slide up and down inside the frame. The two parts are not necessarily the same size where the upper sash is smaller shorter it is termed a cottage window. Currently most new double hung sash windows use spring balances to support the sashes, but traditionally, counterweights held in boxes on either side of the window were used. These were and are attached to the sashes using pulleys of either braided cord or, later, purpose made chain. Three types of spring balances are called a tape or clock spring balance channel or block and tackle balance and a spiral or tube balance. Double hung sash windows were traditionally often fitted with shutters. Sash windows can be fitted with simplex hinges that let the window be locked into hinges on one side, while the rope on the other side is detachedso the window can be opened for fire escape or cleaning. Horizontal sliding sasheditA horizontal sliding sash window has two or more sashes that overlap slightly but slide horizontally within the frame. In the UK, these are sometimes called Yorkshire sash windows, presumably because of their traditional use in that county.