There is a theory in the design of banks and financial institutions that with solidity there is safety.  That the more impregnable a building appears, the more solid the building materials used, and the greater presence of brick and stone, the safer are its assets, occupants, and visitors.  Afterall, who in his right mind would challenge a fortress, and what criminal would even begin to contemplate the impossible. However, in a series of studies in which incarcerated bank robbers were asked as why and how they selected their targets, there was one fact that came up again and again as if a green flag had been waved.  The limited use or near absence of exterior and interior Glass!  Surprised?  Well so were many architects, interior designers, and industry experts, but not single perpetrator of this Federal crime.  As they explained, it

So what makes Smart Designs laminated glass different than other types of safety glass?  Let's take a quick look at the some facts.

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1. Laminated glass is a glass that fails to break apart on cracking, a quality that causes the glass, to be categorized as a  “safety glass.”
2. Frenchman Edouard Benedictus, a chemist and artist, discovered laminated glass purely by accident.  It was the result of an incident in which a glass flask, unintentionally covered in plastic film, had dropped and shattered but did not break.
3. Édouard Benedictus filed a patent for laminated glass in 1909, and while it was designed initially for automobile windshields, it was not until after it had been used in World War I for gas mask lenses, that it became widely accepted for the use in cars.
4. The front windshield is the only window in car

While glass remains one of the most highly studied, inexpensive, and versatile of building products, the reality is it is one of the most puzzling to scientific minds.  In fact, not a moment of day goes by that we don’t have some level of contact with architectural glass, whether it be a door, window, enclosure, storefront or curtain wall, and yet we remain totally obvious that it’s a material with a hidden secret. Why? Because it is not a true solid, like a metal for example. Simply stated, when molten sand (sand, calcium carbonate and sodium carbonate) cools, and is formed into architectural glass, it never quite becomes a true solid.  Yes, it has crystalline order like a solid, but its irregular, limited and intertwined with random molecules, as in a liquid. Interesting?