Society of Glass Technology

The Society of Glass Technology began publishing its proceedings and transactions in 1917 in its Journal of the Society of Glass Technology. The Journal consisted of three portions: Proceedings and Reports, being accounts of the business of the Society's meetings and reports approved by council; Transactions and their ensuing Discussions which had been read to the Society and authorised for publication; and Abstracts and Reviews of the British and foreign journals of such papers as may be of service to persons interested in glass.

From February 1960 the Journal was split into two parts called Glass Technology and Physics and Chemistry of Glasses. Glass Technology contains reports of applied science in the glass industry. Physics and Chemistry of Glasses contains reports of original studies of the physics and chemistry of glasses, both experimental and theoretical. Both journals continue to publish book reviews and abstracts from the international scientific and technical literature.

From January 2006 the journals of the Society of Glass Technology (SGT) and the Deutsche Glastechnische Gesellschaft (DGG) were combined as the European Journal of Glass Science and Technology. Published in two parts Glass Technology: European Journal of Glass Science and Technology Part A and Physics and Chemistry of Glasses: European Journal of Glass Science and Technology Part B. This venture builds on the successes and traditions of the journals of both societies to produce two high quality scientific and technical journals with essential reading for all those working in the fields of glass science and technology. Both journals are published six times per year.

The SGT also publishes a range of monographs, reports and conference proceedings that provide definitive texts on subjects of direct relevance to those working in glass and related areas.

The Invited Papers and Extended Abstracts volumes and conference CD-ROM of the XIX International Congress on Glass are now available. Peer reviewed versions of all the contributions will be published in special conference volumes of Glass Technology and Physics and Chemistry of Glasses.

Journals

The SGT publishes two bimonthly journals: European Journal of Glass Science and Technology Part B Physics and Chemistry of Glasses is the leading international publication directed towards the specialised interests of research scientists in the fields of glass structure and properties. Only peer reviewed papers are published in Physics and Chemistry of Glasses. European Journal of Glass Science and Technology Part A Glass Technology covers a wider range of topics, including glass making, glass fabrication, properties and applications of glasses or glass ceramics and other related topics. In addition to refereed papers, Glass Technology contains SGT and industry news together with conference proceedings and review papers. The Abstracts sections of both journals are of particular value to members and are considered to be the most comprehensive in the glass community.

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SGT News appears in Glass International.

Glass Newsletter was a joint publication with ETSU, the Environmental Technology Support Unit, with the aim of raising awareness of energy and waste management topics.

Reviewing the contents of Society of Glass Technology publications

Annual contents of both Journals since 1996 can be accessed below, Adobe Acrobat versions of the summaries can then be accessed and papers ordered. Sample copies of a recent issue of European Journal of Glass Science and Technology Part A Glass Technology or European Journal of Glass Science and Technology Part B Physics and Chemistry of Glasses can also be requested.

The content of back issues of SGT News and Glass Newsletter can also be viewed and Adobe Acrobat files downloaded.

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Physics and Chemistry of Glasses

Contents of the journals are now available from 1960 to date

European Journal of Glass Science and technology Part B Physics and Chemistry of Glasses

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International Congress on Glass proceedings issue 2002, Volume 43C

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Glass Technology

Contents of the journals are now available from 1960 to date

European Journal of Glass Science and technology Part A Glass Technology

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Books - monographs, proceedings and short run publications

SGT monographs provide definitive texts on subjects of direct relevance to those working in glass and related areas.

The Society has published the proceedings of several major conferences on different glass related subjects, the most recent being: the first meeting of the European Society of Glass Science and Technology (ESG), Fundamentals of the Glass Manufacturing Process; and the Second International Conference on Borate Glasses, Crystals and Melts.

Short run publications

Some monographs, notes or proceedings have only a limited potential audience, but this should not be seen as an obstruction to their publication. The Society has introduced equipment that will enable the production of short run imprints on a print on demand basis. The Topical Issues in Glass Series of conference proceedings is produced on such a basis.

Add £5 to any order for postage and packaging. Air mail prices can be given on request.

The Art of Glass

Professor Michael Cable has edited a new collected volume including the renowned translation by Christopher Merrett of L'Arte Vetraria by Antonio Neri. Merrett translated the Italian's book in 1662, adding his own observations which were almost as long as the original text. "The World's Most Famous Book on Glassmaking" was then quickly translated into Latin, German, French and Spanish and was used as a reference source for glass makers for the next 100 years.

To mark the book's 300th year, Professor W E S Turner read a paper to the 1962 Annual General Meeting: "A notable British seventeenth-century contribution to the literature of glassmaking," later published in Glass Technology. This has been included in the volume as well as a preface by the Editor.

The volume reproduces the original layout of The Art of Glass on an A5 format.
A5 (210 mm × 148 mm), 436 pages , ISBN 0-900682-26-4.
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Ceramics and Glass: a basic technology (Paperback)

By Charles Bray
This book brings together ceramics and glass because there is much information, normally attributed to one area which seriously affects the other. It has been written for students, potters and glassmakers working individually or in small studios. It is intended to be a source of understandable information.
2000, 234 mm × 156 mm, 280 pages with colour illustrations throughout,
ISBN 0-900682-30-2
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Ceramics and Glass: a basic technology (Hardback)

Practising stained glass safely

By M. Stanton Harris
This book has been prepared for the purpose of promoting a safer place of work for anyone who now or in the future, intends to find employment in stained glass work. It is intended to be a useful guide to highlight the dangers when working with hazardous materials in everyday use and generate safer working practices, ensuring the continuation of this ancient art form.
2000, A5 (210 mm × 148 mm), 48 pages with colour illustrations throughout, ISBN 0-900682-26-4
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The Window Glass Makers of St. Helens

By R. A. Parkin
A record of window glass making by Pilkington Brothers, at Grove Street, St. Helens from 1826 to 1952. It is wholly about the sheet and rolled glass making factory known as Sheet Works, located in St. Helens only a short distance from the town centre. It was the birth place of the Company of Pilkington Brothers, originally founded as the St. Helens Glass Company.
2000, A5 (210 mm × 148 mm), 128 pages with black and white illustrations, ISBN 0-900682-28-0
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Basic optical stress measurement in glass

By H. W. McKenzie & R. J. Hand
Practical methods used to measure stress in glass are analysed by this 1999 publication. Users of photoelastic techniques in the glass industry, both in day-to-day quality assurance and in more specialist fault-finding applications, will find the information in this book relevant to their needs and that it provides an improved understanding of the measurements being made.
The book has 96 pages, 51 line drawings and 21 colour pictures. A5.
ISBN 0 900682 27 2
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Borate glasses, crystals and melts II

Edited by Adrian C. Wright, Steven A. Feller and Alex C. Hannon.
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Borates Glasses, Crystals and Melts held at The Cosener's House, Abingdon, UK on 22-25 July 1996. 64 papers, 570 pages including index.
ISBN 0 900682 23 X
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Borate Glasses, Crystals & Melts III: Structure and Applications

Edited by Yanko B. Dimitriev and Adrian C. Wright
Proceedings of the Third International Conference, 4-9 July 1999, Sofia, Bulgaria were published in Physics and Chemistry of Glasses and Glass Technology in 2000. These are now available as a separate collected proceedings, A4 (296 mm × 210 mm), black and white illustrations, 286 pages including index.
ISBN 0-900682-31-0.
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Borate Glasses, Crystals & Melts IV:

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference, 14-18 July 2002, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
ISBN 0-900682-43-4
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Borate Glasses, Crystals & Melts V:

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference, 10-14 July 2005, Trento, Italy
ISBN 0-900682-57-4
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Raw materials for glass melting

By Bo Simmingsköld
A practical guide on raw materials used in glass melting to those concerned with batch handling, glass melting, glass compositions, purchase of raw materials, etc. Contents includes: Materials index, raw material description, conversion factors for common raw materials, batch calculations, and examples of colorant combinations for coloured glasses. 80 pages. A5.
ISBN 0 900682 24 8
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Fundamentals of the glass manufacturing process

Proceedings of the First European Society of Glass Science and Technology Conference held in Sheffield, UK on 9-12 September 1991. The volume consists of 58 papers on: physical properties and analysis; crystallisation of glasses; structure; surface treatment; the role of the operator in modern computer based control systems; process control; process modelling; and furnaces and melting. 264 pages. A4.
ISBN 0 900682 21 3
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Advances in amorphous state chemistry
Topical Issues in Glass. Volume 1.

Proceedings of a joint meeting of the SGT and the Applied Solid State Chemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, 1992. Six papers and 19 posters discuss structural modelling and NMR, sol-gel derived glasses and nanocomposites, and electro-optic phenomena. 92 pages. A5.
ISBN 0 900682 22 1
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Reactions at glass surfaces
Topical Issues in Glass. Volume 2.

Proceedings of a joint meeting of the SGT and the Applied Solid State Chemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry at Pilkington Technology Centre, Lathom, UK, 1997. Seven papers (two as abstracts only) and 17 posters (five as abstracts only) discuss the unique properties of glass as a substrate for chemical reactions. 106 pages. A5.
ISBN 0 900682 25 6
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Photons, Glasses and Coatings
Topical Issues in Glass. Volume 3.

Proceedings of a joint meeting of the SGT and the Applied Solid State Chemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry at Pilkington Technology Centre, Lathom, UK, 1999. Seven papers (three as abstracts only) and 17 posters (three as abstracts only) discuss the interaction of light with glass and coatings on glass. 128 pages. A5.
ISBN 0 900682 29 9
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Refractories in the glass industry

A collection of reports from the Society of Glass Technology's Refractories Technical Committee, reprinted from Glass Technology. Seven papers discuss: aluminosilicates, silica refractories, feeder and forehearth refractories, special refractories, basic refractories, insulation, and fusion cast refractories. 1994. 32 pages. A4.
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Glass Furnaces: design, construction and operation

By W. Trier (Translated by K. L. Lowenstein)
The technical criteria, descriptions and designs of all furnace types for the many kinds of glasses are described. 1987 (original German 1984). 296 pages. 190×270 mm.
ISBN 0 900682 20 5
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Stones and cord in glasses

By C. Clark-Monks & J. M. Parker
The origins of stones and cord, techniques for their evaluation and a number of case histories are explained. Identification of the various categories of stone and cord are provided in the 86 plates included in the book. 1980. 208 pages. A5.
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Coloured glasses

By W. A. Weyl
The theories of colour in glasses are related to their structure and constitution. First published 1951, fifth reprint 1999. 560 pages. 135×215 mm.
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Bosc D'Antic on Glass-Making

Translated by Michael Cable
The second in a three volume series on how the understanding of glassmaking advanced over the course of two centuries from the early 1600s to around 1840.
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Early Nineteenth Century Glass Technology in Austria and Germany

Translated by Michael Cable
This volume is the third in a series that demonstrate how advances in science, especially chemistry, infulenced the developement of glass melting pactice from the middle of the seventeenth century to almost the middle of the nineteenth by making available in English the of authors of those times.
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Old English Glass House

by Francis Buckley
The History and Heritage Special Interest Group of the Soceity of Glass Technology have commissioned this collection as the first in a series. The papers were all researched and written by Francis Buckley and originally published in the Journal of the Society of Glass Technology in the 1920s. Buckley compiled a listing of glassworks built in the UK after 1696 until the early part of the 19th Century. One of the fascinations of Buckley's papers is that he not only lists his references, he actually states what they are, giving additional information to that in the main text.
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Glass Blowing

by Charles Bray
A practical guide to the material; founding and batch melgin; equipment and tools; the blowing process, including gathering, marvering forming and the use of punties;handles, air twists, threading, casing and mould blowing; antique glass and bullions, reduction, annealing and compatibility; seeds, stones and cords; colloids, colour, iridescence and enamels; sandblasting, sandcasting, engraving and cutting; adverturines, opal glass and vaious glass recipes.
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fundamentals of INORGANIC GLASSES

The second edition of Arun Varshneya’s Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses has been published by the Society of Glass Technology. The introductory chapter looks at a brief history of glasses and glass making. Glass families of interest: vitreous silica; soda–lime glass; borosilicate glass; lead silicate glass; aluminosilicate glass; other silica-based oxide glasses; other non-silica-based oxide glasses; halide glasses; amorphous semiconductors; chalcogenide and chalcohalide glasses; glassy metals; glass-like carbon; and oxyhalide, oxynitride, and oxycarbide glasses. The chapter finishes with a brief note on glasses found in nature.
The remaining chapters are on: Fundamentals of the Glassy State; Glass Formation Principles; Glass Microstructure: Phase Separation and Liquid Immiscibility; Glass Compositions and Structures; Composition–Structure–Property Relationship Principles; Density and Molar Volume; Elastic Properties and Microhardness of Glass; The Viscosity and Surface Tension of Glass; Thermal Expansion of Glass; Heat Capacity of Glass; Thermal Conductivity of Glass; Glass Transition Range Behavior; Permeation, Diffusion and Ionic Conduction in Glass; Dielectric Properties; Electronic Conduction; Chemical Durability; Strength and Toughness; Optical Properties; and Fundamentals of Inorganic Glass Making. There are also Appendices on Elements of Linear Elasticity; the SciGlass Database by O. V. Mazurin and A. I. Priven (including a student version on CD); Who wants to earn an A? (More questions and answers in addition to those at the end of each chapter.); Units, Conversion and General Data.
Published September 2006, 234 mm × 156 mm, 704 pages with some colour but mostly black and white illustrations, ISBN 0-900682-51-5 paperback, ISBN 0-900682-53-1 (hardback).
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Preferred prices for SGT Members

Members of the Society can obtain publications from member organisations of the European Society of Glass Science and Technology at discounted rates.

German Society of Glass Technology publications

Advances in Fusion and Processing of Glass

Second International Conference, 22-25 October 1990, Düsseldorf, Germany, 469 pages.
DM 35

Fourth International Conference, 22-24 May 1995, Würzburg, Germany, 277 pages.
DM 75

Fundamentals of Glass Science and Technology

Proceedings of the Second European Society of Glass Science and Technology Conference, 21-24 June 1993, Venice, Italy, 702 pages.
DM 120

Proceedings of the Third European Society of Glass Science and Technology Conference, 22-24 May 1995, Würzburg, Germany, 605 pages.
DM 100

Fifth International Otto Schott Colloquium

Jena, Germany, 1994, 632 pages.
DM 75

Joining Ceramics, Glass and Metal

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference, Konigswinter, Germany, 1993, 412 pages.
DM 60

International Congress on Glass

Proceedings of the XVI Congress, Madrid, Spain, 1992, 8 volumes.
DM 180

Proceedings of the XII Congress, Hamburg, Germany, 1983, 2 volumes.
DM 60

Orders should be sent to: Verlag der Deutschen Glastechnischen Gesellschaft, Mendelssohnstr. 75-77, D-60325 Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
Tel +49 69 749088.
Fax +49 69 749719.

Other publishers' offers

SGT Members also receive discounts on selected titles from other publishers; these are listed below.

Introduction to Glass Science and Technology

By J. E. Shelby, Alfred University, New York, USA
A concise and inexpensive introduction for an undergraduate course in glass science and technology but also invaluable to the engineer or scientist who desires more knowledge regarding the formation, properties and production of glass.
The Royal Society of Chemistry has agreed to allow Members of the Society a discount on this book. It normally retails for £18.95 but Members can obtain it for £16.00, including surface postage. Air mail rates can be given on request. 1997. 250 pages. Order direct from the publishers.

Dictionary of Glass

By Charles Bray, FSGT
The dictionary is aimed at people who work with glass whether they are glassblowers, etchers, engravers, stained glass artists or industrial glass workers. The book aims to cover both technical and artistic aspects of working with glass and takes a scholarly approach to the subject.
A&C Black have agreed a discount of 20% for all Society Members. Normal price £35.00, Members can obtain it for £28+£2.00 postage and packing (surface mail, air mail rates are available on request). 1996. 224 pages.

Techniques of Kiln Formed Glass

By Keith Cummings
Kiln forming as a technique was in use for centuries before the Romans developed glass blowing and yet it has been greatly overshadowed by glass blowing. The author reviews the history of kiln froming and discusses the materials and methods such as slumping and fusing which are involved in it. The book is illustrated with examples of the work of an international group of artists.
A&C Black have agreed a discount for all Society Members. Normal price £28.00, Members can obtain it for £25+£1.50 postage and packing (surface mail, air mail rates are available on request). 1997. 176 pages.

Handbook of Glass in Construction

By Joseph S. Amstock
An excellent volume for anyone involved in the manufacture, design or installation of double glazing units. It gives sufficient background for newcomers to the technology to be able to understand the basics of glass manufacture and properties, and more than enough detail on double glazing to satisfy the most enthusiastic manufacturer.
McGraw-Hill are offering this book at a reduced rate to Members. The usual retail price is £54.99, Members can obtain it for £45.00 including surface postage. Order direct from the publishers.

Glass Science - second edition

By R. H. Doremus
John Wiley & Sons have agreed a discount to Members. Originally published in the 1970s this second edition has been revised and expanded for the 1990s and beyond. Usual retail price £80.00, SGT Members can obtain it for £52.00 including UK postage. Orders for delivery outside the UK should enquire for postage costs. 1994. 352 pages.

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The objects of the Society of Glass Technology are to encourage and advance the study of the history, art, science, design, manufacture, after treatment, distribution and end use of glass of any and every kind. These aims are furthered by meetings, publications, the maintenance of a library and the promotion of association with other interested persons and organisations.