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Plain glass works fine for this, but they were perfectly capable of making one way mirrors at the time. The historical term is "half silvered mirror", which wer
by AlotOfReading 2y ago
Plain glass works fine for this, but they were perfectly capable of making one way mirrors at the time. The historical term is "half silvered mirror", which were used in a lot of early scientific research in optics.
Frankly you could just use blinds though.
- tzs 2y agoIf the internet is to be believed silvered mirrors also came after the 17th century. Wikipedia has silvered mirrors as being from 1835.
- AlotOfReading 2y agoSilvering is a separate and older process than silver mirrors, as in the metal silver applied to a glass surface. The Wikipedia page on silvering points to the 1400s in Europe, and the 10th century for the eastern Mediterranean : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvering