Research on Television Glass

The mass production of glass has long been a stronghold of empiricism, but science is now an increasing presence. Much of the initiative for this comes from the Central Glass Laboratory, set up in 1957, and from Philips Research Laboratories. Following on from an earlier study at Philips Research Laboratories on the 'fining' of glass, described previously in this journal, attempts have been made to obtain a scientifically based understanding of a wider field of the glass-formation processes, including both melting and fining. The glass compositions used in these studies were made as close as possible to those used in practice.