Society of Glass Technology

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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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.
There is a list of suppliers supported by its own web based listing.
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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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