The Glass Industry of North America in 1924. Appendix and Discussion

 JSGT 1925 V09 T024-T028

Through the kindness of friends in America, I am able to make two slight but desirable corrections in the report published on the above subject in the preceding number of the Journal. Dr G. K. Burgess, Director of the Bureau of Standards, Washington, writes to point out that the Department of the Bureau which carries on the experimental work connected with the production of glass is the Department of Commerce, the title Department of Commerce and Industry being incorrect. It would also be strictly correct, he points out, to say that this Department supplies nearly all, instead of all, the optical glass required by the US Navy. Mr Hermann Kimble has recently told me in person that whilst, as I reported, it is true that practically all other glass manufacturers who previously made chemical glassware in the form of beakers and flasks have abandoned this line of manufacture in view of the general demand for Pyrex glass, his own firm, the Kimble Glass Co., still continues to make a certain quantity of beakers and flasks in chemical resistant glass.

W. E. S. Turner