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Society of Glass Technology                                            

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List of Officers for 1918

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List of Abbreviations Employed by the Journal

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF GLASS TECHNOLOGY

Proceedings of the Twelfth Meeting

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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Meeting

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Proceedings of the Fourteenth Meeting

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Proceedings of the Fifteenth Meeting

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The Annual General Meeting, 1918

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Proceedings of the Seventeenth Meeting                

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“The Founding of an English Technical Glass Society”

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Proceedings of the Eighteenth Meeting

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Obituary: Alfred Sherwood Esslemont, CBE, AMIEE

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Proceedings of the Nineteenth Meeting                  

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Proceedings of the Twentieth Meeting

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Report of the Refractories Research and Specifications Committee

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Obituary: Marquis de Mos and William Robinson                      

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TRANSACTIONS

I An Account of a New Blowpipe Burner Using Preheated Gas Mixture
By W. A. Whatmough, BSc

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II Glass-making at Bolsterstone, near Sheffield, from about AD 1650 to 1750 By Joseph Kenworthy

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III Some Notes on Pot Failure
By S. N. Jenkinson

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IV Some Notes on American Methods and Practice in the Glass Industry
By H. H. Pitt

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V A New Variable Jet Blowpipe
By S. English, MSc

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VI The Resistant Power of Heavy Lead-potash Glass to Chemical Agents
By J. D. Cauwood, MSc, W. E. S. Turner, DSc and Duncan Webb

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VII British Supplies of Potash-felspar, Considered from the Glass-making Point of View
By Professor P. G. H. Boswell, DSc, FGS

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VIII A Brief Review of the Present Position of the British Glass Industry. Presidential Address
By W. F. J. Wood, BSc, FIC

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IX Note on a Coke Producer Gas Fired Glass Tank for the Production of White Glass
By A. B. Roxburgh

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X A Blowpipe with Preheated Gas and Air
By S. English, MSc

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XI Some Notes on the Annealing of Glass
By Solomon English, MSc and W. E. S. Turner, DSc

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XII The Glass Industry After the War (A general discussion) Part I in London

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Part II Discussion resumed in Sheffield 

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“Some Notes on Pot Failure” Communicated Discussion

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“Some Notes on the Annealing of Glass” Communicated Discussion

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The Second Annual Report of the Delegacy for Glass Research, University of Sheffield

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XIII Note on the Firing of Glass Pots
By Morris W. Travers, DSc, FRS

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XIV Some Additional Notes on Pot Failure
 By S. N. Jenkinson and Percival Marson

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XV Notes on the Formation of Certain Rock Forming Minerals in and about Glass Furnaces
By G. V. Wilson, BSc, FGS

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XVI A Simple Method of Rapidly and Accurately Calibrating Pipettes
 By S. English

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XVII The Resistant Properties of some Types of Foreign Chemical Glassware
By J. D. Cauwood, MSc and W. E. S. Turner, DSc

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Discussion of the Preceeding Five Papers

Abstracts and Reviews

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