Some Experiments on the Acceleration of Glass Melting by the Use of Volatile Constituents in the Batch Mixture

JSGT 1928 V12 T134-T138

 It was my privilege to learn at an early stage from Mr J. D. Cauwood of the experiments which Mr Hemingway has described under the title of “Some Notes on Accelerating the Melting of Glass.”  During the course of my discussion with Mr Cauwood I told him I had for a considerable time had the intention of ascertaining the effect, if any, on the rate of melting of such volatile materials as the ammonium salts, in particular, of ammonium chloride, nitrate, and sulphate. He not only hoped I would carry out the intention, but generously offered to recommend his firm, Messrs. Canning Town Glass Works, Ltd., to make a grant towards the cost of such experiments. With such assistance the experiments described below were carried out. Although the investigation has been by no means exhaustive, the results are sufficiently suggestive to warrant communication at this stage.

W. E. S. Turner