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Society of Glass Technology

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List of Officers for 1919-20

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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 Twenty-First Meeting

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Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Meeting

2

Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Meeting

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Bye-Laws for Branches of the Society Abroad              

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Report to the council from the Refractories Research and Specifications Committee                                                                                               

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Obituary: Edwin Hopkinson

12

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Meeting

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Proceedings of the Second Annual General Meeting,

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Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Meeting

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Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventeenth Meeting        

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Obituary: Sir William Crookes

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The Committee for the Standardisation of Glass and Glassware              

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Report of the Committee on the Standardisation of Laboratory Glassware          

32

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Meeting

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Proceedings of the Twenty-Nineth Meeting                 

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Proceedings of the Thirtieth Meeting

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Presentations to Mr Wood and Dr Turner

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TRANSACTIONS

I Provisional Specifications for Glass Refractories
By The Refractories Research and Specifications Committee of the Council         

3

II Manufacturing Costs in the Glass Industry
By J. Dearden Mills      

14

III A Costing System for a Glass Bottle Factory
By F. Sweeting

27

IV An Apparatus for the Accurate Calibration of Burette Tubes
By S. English, MSc, AIC

34

V Bottle-glass and Glass-bottle Manufacture
By W. E. S. Turner, DSc

37

Our Ideal. An Appeal for Continued Co-operation. Presidential Address
By S. N. Jenkinson, MBE

50

VI The Examination of Optical Glass in Relation to Weathering Properties
By Alfred Vincent Elsden, Oswald Roberts and Harold Spencer Jones

52

VII Some Experiments with a Gas-fired Pot Furnace
By Morris W. Travers, DSc, FRS

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VIII the Exploitation of Glass-sands in the United States of America
By Professor P. G. H. Boswell, DSc

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IX The Preparation of Raw Materials for and the Manufacture of Glass-house Pots
By B. J. Allen

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X Some Phenomena of Pot-Attack
By Walter Rosenhain, BA, DSc, FRS                

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XI The Relations between Tridymite and Crystobalite
By Clarence N. Fenner

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XII The Annealing Temperatures of the Lime-Soda Glasses
By S. English, MSc and W. E. S. Turner, DSc

125

XIII Further Investigations on Chemical Glassware
By Constance M. M. Muirhead, BSc and W. E. S. Turner, DSc

129

XIV The year’s Progress in Glass Research under the Auspices of the Glass Research Delegacy
By W. E. S. Turner, DSc                      

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XV Some German Glassworks in March and April, 1919
By S. N. Jenkinson

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XVI Note on the Preliminary Firing of Tank Furnaces
By Elbert E. Fisher

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XVII Some Recent Improvements in the Designs of Glassworks Furnaces and Gas Producers
By J. S. Atkinson

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XVIII The Glass Industry of North America
By W. E. S. Turner, DSc

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XIX The Reversible Expansion of Refractory Materials
By H. J. Hodsman, MSc, FIC and Prof. J. W. Cobb, CBE, BSc, FIC

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XX The Properties of Lime-soda Glasses
By J. H. Davidson MSc and W. E. S. Turner, DSc

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XXI The Durability of Lime-Soda Glasses
By J. D. Cauwood, MSc, AIC, J. R. Clarke, MSc, Constance M. M. Muirhead, BSC and W. E. S. Turner, DSc                                                            

228

XXII The Heat Expansion of Soda-Lime Glasses
By S. English, MSc, AIC and W. E. S. Turner, DSc         

238

XXIII The Manufacture of Table Ware in Tank Furnaces
By R. L. Frink

242

XXIV A Proposed Standard Formula for a Glass for Lamp-workers
By F. W. Branson, FIC and F. H. Branson, AIC

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XXV Glass for Table Working
By M. W. Travers, DSc, FRS

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XXVI the Polariscope and its Application to the Glass Industry
By G. V. Wilson, BSc

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XXVII A Simple Apparatus for the Detection of Strain in Glass
By S. English, MSc

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XXVIII The Influence of Lime on the Value of Young’s Modulus of Elasticity for the Lime-soda Glasses
By J. R. Clarke, MSc and W. E. S. Turner, DSc

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XXIX Some Experiments on Glass for Lamp-working Purposes
By J. D. Cauwood, MSc, J. H. Davidson, MSc, F. W. Hodkin, BSc and W. E. S. Turner, DSc

266

XXX Magnesia-Soda Glasses
By J. H. Davidson, MSc, F. W. Hodkin, BSc and W. E. S. Turner, DSc

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XXXI The Annealing Temperature of Magnesia-soda Glasses
By S. English, MSc, AIC and W. E. S. Turner, DSc

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XXXII Note on the Formation of Glass
By S. C. Bradford, BSc

282

Abstracts and Reviews