MODERN GLASS
SOME WONDERFUL QUALITIES. Professor W’. E. S. Turner, head of the department of glass technology at the Sheffield University, who showed his audience at a public lecture water boiling in a glass teapot on a gas ring, said to a Daily Mail reporter subsequently: “In the University of Sheffield we have made glass unequalled in the world for its power to withstand heat. Our work here is showing exactly what qualities glass assumes with variations in its composition. We now have glass that you can hit with a hammer without breaking, and glass you can plunge into boiling and then cold water ■as many times as you like without cracking it.” Professor Turner pictured for the near future a glass age. “The glass teapot in which you can boil water on a gas ring is just one proof of the possibilities of glass,” he said. “It is not just a scientific novelty. Teapots like the one I used are being manufactured in Sunderland.”
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Southland Times, Issue 20173, 9 May 1927, Page 2
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