What has the invention of the mirror done for people/the human race/etc.
2007-01-16 15:27:22 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
I have no idea who "invented" it, I think it just sort of evolved and I guess, the earliest mirror in a sense, was water ie the reflection from water surface. However, don't you just wish sometimes that the mirror HADN'T been invented or discovered !!!
2007-01-19 12:52:10 · answer #1 · answered by Lilliana 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I found this for you:
"The typical mirror is a sheet of glass that is coated on its back with aluminum or silver that produces images by reflection. The mirrors used in Greco-Roman antiquity and throughout the European Middle Ages were simply slightly convex disks of metal, either bronze, tin, or silver, that reflected light off their highly polished surfaces. A method of backing a plate of flat glass with a thin sheet of reflecting metal came into widespread production in Venice during the 16th century; an amalgam of tin and mercury was the metal used. The chemical process of coating a glass surface with metallic silver was discovered by Justus von Liebig in 1835, and this advance inaugurated the modern techniques of mirror making. Present-day mirrors are made by sputtering a thin layer of molten aluminum or silver onto the back of a plate of glass in a vacuum."
http://www.mirrorresilvering.com/a_brief_history_of_mirrors.htm (read on!)
Here's an interesting article about the use of mirrors:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0GER/is_1999_Winter/ai_58458603
http://www.nasw.org/users/markp/mirror.html (some interesting ideas here)
http://plaguedocs.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_plaguedocs_archive.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror
2007-01-17 08:55:51 · answer #2 · answered by Sybaris 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mirror is like the wheel, its invention is lost in the depths of time.
2007-01-17 00:00:32 · answer #3 · answered by Michael da Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A better question who be: Who discovered that objects reflect our image? As far as mirrors that are known today (they are glass) so fire and sand baby !
Whomever discovered fire and lived near sand might have figured out how to make a glass mirror....
Good Luck finding an answer!
2007-01-17 00:23:41 · answer #4 · answered by justwondering 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ancient Egyptians had mirrors made of polished metal. I suspect even prehistoric people used shiny natural metals or still water to look at their reflections. It's natural for people to want to see themselves out of curiosity, for attending to beauty and hygiene regimens, etc. Later, of course, mirrors became important components of telescopes, lasers, etc.
2007-01-16 23:36:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is one of the oldest mirrors in history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aranmula_kannadi
It was made from alloys of tin and copper. The exact composition is still a secret.
2007-01-16 23:37:45 · answer #6 · answered by Louzer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im not sure who invented it but I think it was Louis the XIV that made it popular after it was invented.
2007-01-16 23:32:15 · answer #7 · answered by Mark R 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋