Some Remarks on Technical Education addressed chiefly to Glass Manufacturers

JSGT 1923 V07 T296-T303

 I do not know if the Institution the Seventh Annual Report of -which is attached is still the only University department of its kind in the world. Some time ago the writer did see reference to a Professor of Glass Technology in Mexico, whilst a year or two ago he also received a letter stating that a Department of Glass Technology was to be set up in India. No similar progress, at any rate, has been made in Germany, although the establishment in July, 1922, of a German Society of Glass Technology which aims at encouraging all scientific effort in connection with glass may ultimately bear fruit in this direction. In Belgium also a move has been made to establish certain courses on glass technology at the University of Charleroi. In America, the establishment of a special Department still seems to hang fire, although the importance of the American glass industry fully warrants that such a step should have been taken long before now.

W. E. S. Turner