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IT is now widely known that among the industries which have been profoundly influenced by the war the glass and glassware industry of the United Kingdom occupies a foremost place. Not only have the pre-war products of this industry, as they existed in this country before the war, been found essential for a wide range of national purposes during wartime, but the necessity has also been forcibly realised of creating certain special sections of this industry, previously non-existent in the country, to supply glass and glassware, glass instruments, and glass apparatus directly necessary for the prosecution of the war, as well as similar articles equally vital as being indispensable for the efficient operation of other industries. The importance of the glass industry to the economic life of the nation is to be measured largely by its effect upon, and indispensability to, other industries. This has been fully recognised by the Government in the inclusion of scientific glassware and illuminating glassware, as well as optical glass, in the schedule of unstable “key” industries.
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MEIGH, E. The Glass Research Association . Nature 104, 299–301 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104299b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/104299b0