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WE have received from the Department of Glass Technology, University of Sheffield, a copy of vol. ii. of “Experimental Researches and Reports” published by that department. The papers included have already appeared in the Journal of the Society of Glass Technology. They range over a somewhat wide field of the glass industry, and include papers dealing with bottle-glass and glass-bottle manufacture, chemical glassware, glass for lamp-working purposes, besides accounts of such relevant investigations as the accurate calibration of burette tubes, a simple apparatus for the detection of strain in glass, and the annealing temperatures of lime-soda and magnesia-soda glasses. There are also a paper descriptive of the glass industry of North America and an account of the year's progress in glass research under the auspices of the Glass Research Delegacy. The condition of the glass industry in this country undoubtedly calls for sustained and systematic research, and this contribution of the Department of Glass Technology of the University of Sheffield must be of considerable assistance to what should be a great and national industry. The newly founded Glass Research Association has also an extensive programme of research in the field of what may be called industrial and laboratory glass, and the British Scientific Instrument Research Association is also more particularly concerned with investigations into optical glass. With such a measure of co-operation and) co-ordination as the development of the researches shows to be necessary between these various bodies, there is hope that the users of all types of glass in this country may be able to find a home supply equal, if not superior, to the foreign sources to which, before the war, they perforce had to go for much of the glass they needed.
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Glass Technology. Nature 106, 133 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106133b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106133b0