History of Doors |
| Date Added: March 04, 2010 04:42:04 PM |
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| Category: Construction |
| History of Doors I’m not sure when doors began. I can only assume that the cave men would place large rocks and tree branches across their cave entrances to prevent wild animals, the cold and the rain and maybe other cave dwellers and other tribes from entering while they slept. This is only an assumption. When we look through history at the homes of people like Henry the 8th or further back to the 7th century we can see that houses were complete with doors. They were usually massive carvings from wood. They had beautiful designs on them and would have been very heavy. In fact these are the most common for some time. The 20th century saw the birth of the more modern doors. The discovery of new materials that would make the doors more water proof and less heavy were now becoming readily available. But what was around before the 7th century well, let’s take a look at the ancient Egyptians cave drawings. They showed single and double doors that appeared to be made from wood. King Solomon's temple has the most ancient doors they were carved from timber, and overlaid with gold. The earliest known automatic door was created by Heron of Alexandria in the 1st century CE during the era of Roman Egypt During the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui the first foot-sensor-activated automatic door in was born in China. Emperor Yang of Sui had one installed in his royal library. In 1206, the Arabic inventor, Al-Jazari created the first automatic gate operators. By the 6th century bronze was very popular; this was a continuing trend through to the 12th century. The oldest door in England can be found in Westminster Abbey. This dates from 1050. Doors will continue to get stronger and more purpose made with time but when we look over the history of doors, they have always been basically the same thing whatever the time they were made. The most significant changes are the materials used and the patterns and pictures they carry. A door is a door, whatever century it’s from. |
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