A Touch of Glass

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222 ATOUCH OF GLASS

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Index

A’la façon de Venise, 36-37 Ancient India, 119, 124, 127-28,
Abhala Bharat, 126 220-22
Abidin, Sultan Mizan Zainal,
170 Achilefu, Samuel, 192 Anderson, Hans Christian, 1
Age of Glass, 206 Andersson, Arthur, 179
Ahmed, Nazir, 134 Andreu, Paul, 175
Ahmed, Syed Sultan, 134 Andrew, Shortland, 70
Ain-i-Akbari, 124 Angel, Roger, 206
Aina Mahal, 172 Annealing, Lehr, 51, 54, 56, 131
Aina-kari, 169 Antimony, 28-29, 47-48, 73, 78, 92-
Akhenaten, Pharaoh, 73, 78
Alabaster Glass, 159 93
Alamogordo, 14 Aranmula Kannadi mirrors, 39
Alexander Romance, 188 Arbogast, Philip, 60
Alexander, the Great, 80, 188-89 Archaeological sites, 78, 118
All India Glass Manufacturers’ Archaeologists, 14, 25, 28,

Federation, 145 58, 79, 187; British, 71, 78;
Contemporary, 73; Modern, 25
Amarakosa, 119
Amenhotep, Pharaoh, 74 Architect, 138, 168, 172-74, 176;
America, 11, 67, 188, 193, American, 170, 174-75, 177;
204, Catalic, 177; Chinese-American,
174; Contemporary, 175; Czech,
210, 217; American artists, Eric
Markow, 166; Karen LaMonte, 175; French, 175; German, 174;
202; Louis Comfort Tiffany, Modern, 176
162; Arsenaul, Edouard, 180, 181
Thom Norris, 166 Art glasses: Amen, 147; amberina,
American Society of Civil 147-48; amethyst, 148; annagrün,
Engineers, 178 148-49; apsley pellatt, 149;
American Window Glass Co., apothecary, 149; art deco, 149;
6 Ancient chemists, 16, 19, aventurine, 149, 150; baccarat,
24 150, 151; black, 12, 124; blown-
out, 151; blue, 27, 31, 47, 75,
Ancient experiments, 27 77, 83, 94, 103, 107, 109, 114,
Ancient Glass, 21, 29, 46, 59, 70, 201; bubble, 151; bullicante,
76-

77, 79, 85-86, 99, 106-109, 119,
121-22, 148

226 ATOUCH OF

GLASS

151; Burmese, 152; carnival, Bangladesh, 145
152; cathedral, 153; chalk, 153; Barilla, 6, 7, 29-30
chocolate, 153; coralene, 154; Barovier, Angelo, 29, 32
cloud, 154; Crackle, 154; clutha, Barovier, Giovanni, 32
151; container, 45, 52, 55-56, Barovier, Giuseppe, 32
58-59, 62, 64, 67, 195; cristallo, Barthelat, (Professor) François, 88-
29-30, 33-34, 36, 40, 153; crown,
89
35; custard, 155; depression, Batch Mixing, 49
155; desert, 12, 148; embossed Becquerel, Antoine Henri, 165
pattern, 151; favrile, 159; fibre, Beijing Glass Research Institute, 145
52, 66; filigrana, 134; filigree, Benares Hindu University, 134, 136
156; flash, 156; flake, 156; flint, Benedictus, Edouard, 55, 66
156; frit, 157; foam, 142; forest, Bet She’arim slab, 85-86
33, 40; gold-ruby, 157; goofus, Bhatnagar, (Dr.) Shanti Swarup, 136-
157; grotesque, 158; hobnail,
158; historismu, 158; jacobite, 38
159; jade, 159; knitted, 159; laser,
142; lutz, 160; mary gregory, BHU See Benares Hindu University
160; moss agate, 160; milk, 161; Bicheroux, Emil, 54
persian, 95, 100; mother of pearl, Bigaglia, Pietro, 34
161; opalescent, 161; parkling, 58; Biscop, Abbott Benedict,145
peach blow, 162; pigeon blood, 162; Blaschka, Leopold, 204-5
Blaschka, Rudolf, 204-5
pulled, 162; pulegoso, 151; Board of Scientific and Industrial

ridescent, 158; rubina verde, 162; Research, 134-36
satin, 163; sea, 163; sandwich,
163; spangle, 163; stretch, 162, Bofill, Ricardo, 177
164; slag, 163; 155; strained,164; Borosilicate glass, 45-46, 65, 142,
threaded, 164; tortoise shell, 163-
65; uranium, 165; vasa murrhina, 145, 193, 204
165; vaseline, 165; williamite, Bose, Jagadish Chandra, 134
166; woven, 166 Böttger, Johann Friedrich, 112
Arthashashtra, 118, 119 Bottle House, 180-81
Arulmigu Sri Rajakaliamman Glass Brahmachari, Sir U.N., 137
Temple, 170 Brihat Samhita, 118-19
Brill, Robert, 122, 221
Ashley, Howard, 60 Bristolware, 113
Ashwamedha Yagya, 118 British Glass Industry, 36
Assyrian court, 71 British Museum, 17, 74, 76, 82-83,
Assyriologist, 17
Atma Ram, Dr., 137, 139-41 96
Bronze age glass production, 78
BSIR See Board of Scientific and

Industrial Research
Bulk Metallic Glasses, 193-94

Badridas, Seth, 169 Cadmium sulphide, 28, 47, 148
Bailey’s Irish Cream (Canada), Calcutta, 130, 133, 137-38
201 Ballarin, Giorgio, 31, 32

INDEX 227

California Institute of Technology Consiglio, Maggior, 31
(CalTech), 194 Container glass, 45, 52, 55-56, 58-
59, 62, 64, 67, 195; Techniques, 56
Carder, Frederick, 158, 159 Cookworthy, William, 113
Carré, Jean, 36
Catani, Filippo, 35 Cornejo, (Prof.) Ivan, 197
Catholic University of Leuven, 70
Corning Museum of Glass, 17, 73,
Cayvan, Georgie Eva, 199 85, 90, 125, 164, 219, 220
Center for Research, Technology and Council of Scientific and Industrial
Education in Vitreous Materials Research, 133, 136-143, 145-46,
221-22
(CeRTEV), 145
Central Glass and Ceramic Research Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, 98
Institute (CSIR-CGCRI), 133-34, Couper, James, 151
Crystal Cathedral, 170
136-38, 145
Central Glass and Silicate Research Crystal Mosque, 170
Crystals, 8, 13, 65, 82, 86, 118, 128,
Institute, 136 156, 207; Crystal Mosque, 170
CSIR, See Council of Scientific and
Central Glass Research Institut
Committee, 136 e Industrial Research
Cybertecture® Mirror, 3, 4
Cesm-i bulbul, 101
Charaka Samhita, 118-19

Châtelier, Henry le,11

Chihuly Bridge of Glass,178-79 D’Incarville, Pierre, 112

Chihuly, Dale, 179 Dalal Ardeshir, 138 Dare

China, 34, 38, 69, 73, 95, 105-113, to Wear, 202 Daylight
121, 145, 153, 175, 179, 216
Christopher Faye of Norway, 208 robbery, 54 De Re Rustica,

Cinderella, 1, 170, 201 84 Dean, Earl R., 67

Clarke, Arthur C.,4 Deccan College, 122

Claudius, Roman Emperor, 84 Dede, Mehmet, 101
Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition, 174 Dias-
Cleopatra’s Necklace, 79
CN Tower, 178 Leão, Diana, 202

Diatreta, 83
Cobalt, 27, 47, 73, 83, 92, 98, 102, Drinkware, 55, 127, 159, 166
140, 142, 148 Dutch tears, 203

Codex Theodosianus, 91
Coggin, Brown, J., 128, 132
Coloured glass, 16, 18, 21, 25, 30,
38, 46-47, 58, 59, 71, 73-74, 77- Edeowie glass, 12
79, 81, 91-93, 102-6, 119, 122-24, Edo Kiriko, 115
139, 148, 152-53, 155-56, 163, Ege, Carl, 9, 220
165, 169, 171-72, 174, 177, 180, Egermann, Friedrich, 160
205 Egypt, 19-23, 25-26, 37-38, 57,

Columbus, Christopher, 187 69-79, 82, 94-95, 98, 104, 109;
Comfort Tiffany, Louis, 159, 162 Egyptian faience technology, 22;
Commercial Glass Making, 49, 52 Egyptian perfume bottles, 58;

Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, 75

228 ATOUCH OF GLASS

Elgan, Mike, 2-3 115-16, 145, 154, 171, 174, 176-
Ellis Peter, 174 77, 200, 202, 205, 218
Emperor Diocleti, 84; Kangxi, 111; Getty Conservation Institute, 70
Ghosh, J.C., 135
Taizong, 109; Tiberius Caesar, 87,
89 Giant Egg, 175
Empire Machine Company, 61 Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT),
Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World, 93
Ennion, glassworker, 89-90 193
EON Interactive Mirror, 3 Giguere, Jean-Marie, 201
Eremin, Katherine, 70 Gipar-ku, 71
Eulalia, Infanta, 199-200 Glass and Refractories Committee,
Europe, 30, 33, 39, 53, 59, 97, 105,
112, 124, 160, 164, 171-72, 179 137
Eyewear, 65 Glass artists, 151, 191, 201, 204;

Fairytale, 1, 2, 4, 199, 201 Dale Chihuly, 179; Kale Maestri,
Farlow, Gary, 204 177; Leopold Blaschka, 204;
Father d’ Entrecolles, 112-13;
Rudolf Blaschka, 204
Louis- François Orry, 112; Glass bangles, 120-124
Stumpf, 111; Francois Xavier d’ Glass baubles, 201
Entrecolles, 112 Glass beads, 20, 22, 26-27, 29, 71,
Fazl, Abu-al, 124 107-8, 110, 114, 118-124, 187-88,
First World War, 54, 130 201
Fleury, Charles Rohault de, glass building, 170, 173, 176, 181
174 Flexible Collar of Nekhbet, Glass factories, 32, 49, 85, 100, 120,
21 Florentine glassmaker, 157 128, 130, 132
Florida, 10, 81, 188 Glass furnaces, 16-17, 31, 77
Forman Christian College, Glass Industry in India, 119-20, 129,
136 Foster, Norman, 175-77 131, 135
Fourcault, Émile, 54 Glass King, 208
Fraunhofe, Joseph, 115 Glass manufacturing techniques, 5
Fraunhofer, Joseph, 115 Glass Menagerie, 210
Freer Gallery of Art, Glass Museum, 153, 216-19
108 Fulgur, 9 Glass Pavilion, 17
Fulgurite, 9-12 Glass staircases, 178
Fulvy, Jean-Henri-Louis Orry de, Glass temple, 170
112-13 Glass vessel, 23, 26, 35, 57, 59, 72,
74, 78, 80-81, 83-84, 89-90, 96,
Gabriel-Léonard de Broussard, 112 98-100, 103, 106, 109-11, 119,
Galilei, Galileo, 117 121, 124
Gassblower Guillem, 30 Geological Glass Wreck, 97
Survey of India, 129 George Glassblowing, 57-62, 69, 79, 89, 204
Davidson Glasshouse, 154 Glassmakers: Alexandrian, 87; Altare,
Germany, 9, 11, 33, 36, 40, 77, 112,
33; American, 130; Ancient, 27,
28, 81; Ancient Jewish, 85; British
glassmaker, 161; Contemporary

INDEX 229

Syrian glassmakers, 87; English Hentzen, (Dr.), 9
glassmaker, 36; Florentine, 157; Hitopadesha, 118
French, 160; Irish-American, 158; Holland, 40, 203
glassmaker Seventeenth-century, Honiss, William, 61
5; Venetian glassmakers, 29, 31, Hooke, Robert, 203
40, 58, 154 Hoskins, (Prof.) Stephen, 26
Glassmaking, 5-7, 19-21, 23, 26, Hubble Space Telescope, 117, 191-92
Huqqa, 103, 125; bidriware, 125;
28, 30-32, 37, 44, 49, 56, 69, 72,
80-81, 95, 99-101, 103, 106, 108, greenglass, 125; Mughal era, 125
115, 118-21, 124, 131-32; ancient,
75; art of, 30, 72; centre for, 87; Ice Glass Craquelle, 154
Chinese, 106, 108; European, ICG President’s Award, 215
187; history of, 125; mamluk, Idioblast, 20
104; method of, 34, 54; monopoly IICseeIndian Industrial Commission,
of, 36; secret of, 30; tricks of, 17; Imperial Festival Book, 101-2
venetian, 30, 31; Western, 106 Indian Glass Industry, 130-31, 133,
Glasspha, 195
Gletschergarten, 41 135, 143-44
Gobains, St., 174 Indian glass manufacturers, 132
Gobeunok, 114 Indian Industrial Commission (IIC),
Goddess Iris, 158; Nuwa, 106
Google Glass, 195 133
Gottardi Prize, 215 Goya, Indian Industrialists, 129
Francisco de,190 Indian MunitionsBoard, 130
Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village, Ingle, Henry W,61
181 Inkstone of the Thunder God, 10
Great Glass House, 175 Institute for International Research
Greatricks (Great-tricks) Glass, 203
Greco-Roman Glass Industry, 76 in Glass, 145
Greece, 57, 69-71, 79, 80-83, 93, 150 Institute of Archaeology, 77, 79
Guinand, Pierre Louis, 115, 116 Institute of Glass and Ceramic
Gupta, S.P.K., 135
Gurudwara Data Bandi Chhod, 170 Research and Testing, 145
Institute of Nautical Archaeology,
Hall of Mirrors, 40, 41, 172 97 International Glass Prize, 215
Hartford-Fairmont Company, 61 International Materials Institute
Harvard Art Museum, 70 for
Harvard Semitic Museum, 69-70
Hawkes, Thomas Gibbons, 158 New Functionality in Glass (IMI-
Hayyān, Jābir ibn,46 NFG), 145
Hellenistic Age, 80 Iran, 26, 38, 95-96, 98, 103, 105,
Helmer, Joseph, 201 124, 169
Henry Gosse, Philip,205 Iron Age, 19, 118
Islamic glass, 93-95, 97-98, 100, 105
Israel, 5, 7, 85, 86, 92, 93;
Archaeology, 86; Israel
Antiquities Authority, 86
Ivory Coast, 11
Ivrene, 159

230 ATOUCH OF

GLASS

J. Paul Getty Museum, 71, 80 Lalbhai, Kasturbhai, 134

Jackson, (Dr.) Caroline, 78 LaMonte, Karen, 202
Late Bronze Age, 27, 70, 72, 78
Jackson, C. M., 28 Law, James, 3

Jadavpur College, 137 Law, N. N., 134
Jahan, Shah, 126
Jain, Sir Seth Hukumchand, 169 Lawrence Berkeley National

James, (Prof.) Liz, 93, 94 Laboratory, 194

James, W. Lankton, 120 Layard, Austen Henry, 59

Japan, 39, 72, 96, 112, 114-15, 130, Le Mesnil Villeman, 97
150, 218; Japanese Archaeology Lehigh University’s International
Gallery, 96
Jaqua, Ellene, 200 Materials Institute, 145

Jenney, William, 173 Libbey Glass Company, 199

Johnson, Philip,170 Libbey Glass Works, 61
Josephus, Flavius, 7
Journal of Archaeological Science, 14 Libbey, Edward, 199-200
Journal of Biomedical Optics, 192 Liebig, Justus von,41
Ling Piao Lu Y,10
Liquid metal, 194

Littleton, (Dr.) Jesse, 46

Kachakara, 118 Lock, Joseph, 147, 152

Kagaya, Kyubei, 115 Loewy, Raymond, 67
London, 34, 36, 42, 77, 82, 91, 98,
Kames, 53 120, 155, 175-77
Kanch Ka Mandir, 169-70
Kanungo, Alok Kumar, 122, 220-21 Lorenz, William A., 61
Louvre Pyramid, 174
Katha-Sarit-Sagar, 119 Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella,
Kautilya, 119
Kavi, Somnath, 119
84
King Ashurnasirpal, 59; Lund, Benjamin, 114
Assurbanipal, 16-17; Idrimi, 72; Lutz, Nicholas, 160
Nanyue, 109; Rupert, 202-3; Lycurgus Cup, 82
Sargon II, 59

Kitab al-Durra al-Maknuna,46 Mabon, 10
Kopia, 121-22, 221 Macedonia, 80-81
Kopp, Nicholas, 157 Madina Masjid, 170
Korea, 114, 168, 218; Korean Mahavira, Lord, 169
Malam, Ramsingh, 172
Advance Institute of Science Mandela, Nelson, 147
and Technology, 3 Mansell, Sir Robert, 36
Kralik, Wilhelm, 155
Kyoto National Museum, 39 Martinuzzi, Napoleone, 151

La Estancia Glass Chapel, 170 Masjid Kristal,170
La Farge, John, 162 Matis, Lucian, 201
Laboratory-ware, 65 McGill University, 88
Lakpatji, Maharao, 172 Mehrangarh Fort, 169
Menio, Doge Tribuno, 30

INDEX 231

Mesopotamia, 20, 23, 26, 57, 69-73, Neolithic age, 100
76, 78, 81-82, 85; Mesopotamian Neri, Antonio, 5, 37, 157
signature, 70-71 Nesikhons, 77
Network of beads necklace,22
Mexico, 13-14, 157, 170 New York Times, 190-200
Micro-tektites, 11 New Zealand, 215, 218
Millefiori, 33-34, 151 Nicholas, Lutz, 160
Milunić, Vlado, 175 Nicholson, (Dr.) Paul, 78
Miotti, Vincenzo, 150 Norris, Thom, 166
Mishnah Jewish Oral Law, Northwood, John, 160
85 Mitra, S. K., 135 NSW Road Traffic Authority, 195
Modern glassproduction, 147 Nuzi, 70-71, 81; Nuzi glass, 69-70
Mody, H.P., 134
Moldavite, 11 Obsidian, 1, 13-14, 25, 42, 71, 190,
Monkwearmouth, 146 198, 225; Obsidian mirror, 37
Monro, William, 6 Opaque glazes, 140
Mother Nature, 9, 75, 197
Moti Mahal, 169 Oppenheim, Adolf Leo,17
Mound of bead, 123
Mount Washington Glass Co., 148, Optical Glass, 30, 66, 115-16, 140-41
Oriel Chambers, 174
152 Otto-Schott Institute for Glass
Mount Washington Glass Works,
Chemistry, 145
148
Mudalair, Sir Arcot Ramasamy, Owens, Michael Joseph, 61-62
134 Mughal Emperor, 126
Mughal India, 103, 124 Owens-Corning Fiberglas
Mukherjee, (Prof.) J. N.,
136 Muller, David, 206 Corporation, 156
Mumtaz Mahal, 126
Munich Cage Cup, 82 Paandan, 103
Munroe, Helen Nairn,
201 Pacha, Grand Vizie Sokull
Murano Bullicante Glass,151 Mehmed, 105 r u
Musical glass, 208
Mutianzi Zhuan Shangshu-Yugong, Paisa Fund Glass Factory, 130

105 Pakistan, 120, 126, 139, 168
Muziris port, 124
Parison, 56, 59-61
Nadel, (Dr.) A., 136-37 Pasteur, Louis, 117
Nara National Research Institute Patella, 81
Paxton. Sir Joseph, 173
for Cultural Properties, 114
Nasik, 122 Pearl Palace, 169
NationalBotanic Garden,
175 Navagero, Andrea, 100 Pei, Ieoh Ming, 174
Neckom, Alexander, 39
Peiler, Karl E., 61

Pennyware mirrors, 40

Perrot, Bernard, 40
Petrie, Flinders, 78
Phoenicia, 57
Pilkington Company, 50-51
Pilkington, Alastair, 54, 55

232 ATOUCH OF

GLASS

Pilkington, Sir Lionel Alexander Ranamok Glass Prize, 215

Bethune, 54 Ratna-Pariksha, 119
Ravenscroft, George, 36, 156
Pinudjem II, priest, 77 Raw glass, 81, 93, 94

Pioneer Glass Works, 129
Pizarro, Hernán Cortés de Monroy y, Ray, (Prof.) P.,136
188 Ray, Acharya Prafulla Chandra, 136
Red Glass, 25, 28, 34, 47, 68, 78, 94,
Plato, 79
Pliny, the Elder, 5-7, 13, 28, 80, 99, 111, 139-40, 148, 157
119, 128 Rehren, (Dr.) Thilo, 77

Polk, Willis Jefferson, 174 Reimanis, Ivar, 197

Pollio, Publius Vedius, 82 Rhyolite, 12, 198
Richardson, Benjamin, 161
Populonia, 90

Porcelain, 34, 107, 110-114, 121,
140, 145, 160-163
Porcelaine de Chine,112 River Belus, 5, 6; Bina, 121; Clyde,
151; Gomai, 123; Euphrates, 69;
Poterat, Edme, 112 Mahanadi, 122, 124; Meurthe,

Prince Jing of Zhongshan, 119 150; Moldau, 11; Na’aman, 5;

Prince Liu Dao, 109 Porunthal, 123; Sabarmati, 132;

Production of glass, 6, 9, 23, 69, 78 Tapti, 123; Ticino, 29; Tigris, 69;
Proverb, 213, 214 Tyne, 177; Vitava, 11
Pu-abi, Queen, 71 Publius Rock of God, 12

Vedius Pollio, 82 Pune, Roman artists, 82

122, 129 Roman empire, 30, 34, 80, 84, 91, 95

Pusch, (Dr.) Edgar B, 77 Roman glassworkers, 87, 89-90
Rose Amber, 148
Pushkarewicz, Kelsey, 201 Rosenthal, Jacob, 130

Qantir, 25, 77-78 Rothschild Bucket, 104
Qantir-Piramesses, 77 Roy, (Dr.) Bidhan Chandra, 138
Qing dynasty, 39 Royal Cemetery, 71
Quaker pharmacist, 113 Rubens, Peter Paul,190
Queen Elizabeth, 36, 171; Isabella I, Ruri, 114
Russell Games Slayter
100; Victoria, 152
Queensland University of

Technology, 191, 197 Safavid dynasty, 103

Saha, Meghnad, 134-36

R&D network, 133 Salicornia species, 19
Salvation Army, 81
Radiation Shielding Glass (RSG), São Paulo State Research Foundation,

141-42 145

Raffles City Mall,3 School of Glass Technology, 135

Rama, Lord, 118 Scientific Glassblowing Inc, 204

Ramalingam, Subramanian, Scotland, 218, 219

197 Raman, C. V., 135 Scott and Julie Brusaw, 198

Ramayana, 118

INDEX 233

Second World War, 131, 154, 160, Tagore, Maharshi Debendranath,
171, 180 170

Selenite, 37 Taittiriya Brahmana, 118
Selenium Ruby Glass, 47, 157 Taj Mahal, 126
Seth, Rasmussen, 25 Tang Dynasty, 39, 106, 109
Shanhaijin – Zhongshan,105 Tariff Board, 134
Shanti Niketan, 170 Taxila, 120
Shatapatha Brahmana, 118 Tektite, 10-12
Sheesh Mahal, 126, 168, 169 Tektos, 10
Sheng, Liu, 109 Tesserae, 92, 93, 94
Shirley, Frederick S., 152 Thatcher, (Dr.) Hervey, 64
Shisha, 126; Embroidery, 126, 127 The Energy Research Institute
Shishgar, Mohamed Siddiq,,
Shri Ram, Lala,134 (TERI), 144
Silica, 5, 9, 11-16, 19-20, 22, 28-30, The Glass Prize, 215
The Sage Gateshead, 177
43-45, 75, 78, 119, 132-33, 190, Theophilus, 92
196-98, 212 Thutmose III, Pharaoh, 26-27, 74
Siliceous enamel, 108 Tilak, Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar,
Singh, Sadanand, 206 129 Titagarh, 129
Skywalk, 179, 180 Tjehenet, 26
Snow Queen, 112 Tomb of Iufaa, 22; Liu Sheng, 109;
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 2
Society of Bead Researchers, 107 Menwi and Merti, 26; Nesikhons,
soda-lime-silica glass, 43, 75, 94-95 77; Pharaoh Tutankhamun, 21
Solar Roadways, 198 Toronto Fashion Week, 201
Soret, Jacques Louis,165 Tower Infinit, 168
Spain, 30, 99, 100, 150, 176, 199, transparent, 29, 63, 72, 103, 116,
219 141, 153, 176, 179
Specialty Glass, 44, 52, 65, 140, Trinitite, 14, 15
143, Trivulzio Cage Cup, 82
Sprigs, 53 Trona, 19
Spring Fashion Shows, 201 Turner Award, 215
Steuben Glass Works, 158, 159 Turner Museum of Glass, 201, 217
Turner, William Ernest Stephen,
Stevens Architectural Glass 201 Tutankhamun, Pharaoh, 12,
21, 38,
Competition, 215 74,
Superior Indian glass,128 Types of glass, 15, 45, 95, 120, 122-
Surnama-i Hümayun,102 23, 146, 158, 174, 194
Surname-i Vehbi, 102
Susruta Samhita, 119, 124 UCL Institute of Archaeology, 120
Swadeshi Co-operative Stores, Ujjain, 124
129 Swadeshi movement, 129 Ultra-Low Expansion Glass (ULE),
Syed Sultan Ahmed,
Syrian artists, 98 192
Uluburun, 27

234 ATOUCH OF Vinaya Pitaka,118
Vitri Alessandrini, 84, 87
GLASS Vitri judaica, 84-85
Vyasoyogi Carita, 119
UNESCO World Heritage Site, 30,
171 Wadia, D. N., 132
Walker Art Gallery,202
Unguentaria, 58, 149 Warren, P. F. G., 134
United States Department of Washington University School of

Agriculture Survey, 64 Medicine, 192
University College London, 77 Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew Buddhist
University of Arizona’s Steward
temple, 180
Observatory Mirror Laboratory, Wedgwood, Josiah, 83
193 Wee, Charles, 168
University of California, 194; Wikipedia, 173, 184, 208
Delaware, 201; Harvard, 69, 184, Wittman, S. A.,164
205; Leeds, 203; McGill, 88; 78, Woldemar A. Weyl International
201, 217; Ulm, 205; Wisconsin,
206 Glass Science Award, 215
UP Glass Manufacturers’ Woolley, Sir Charles Leonard, 71
Association, 137
US Food and Drug Association, 144 Yajur Veda, 118
USA, 10, 25, 59-61, 70, 80-81, 96-97, Yalopsos, 91
107-8, 143, 147-48, 152-53, 155- Yayoi period, 114
58, 160, 162-65, 170, 174, 177-79, Yelena, Borodovsky, 79
181, 184, 188, 192, 194-95, 198,
201, 206, 208, 219 ZBALN glass, 197
Utzschneider, Joseph, 115 Zbik, Marek, 191
Zegugita, 85
Valley of the Kings, 75 Zekhukhit, 85
Varshney, I.D, 129, 136, 137 Zsigmondy, Richard Adolf,157
Venetian chevron beads, 188
Venice, 30-32, 34-35, 40-41, 93-94,

100-101, 104-5, 150, 161
Verre craquelé, 154
Villeman, Le Mesnil, 97

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An infant’s first introduction to glass is perhaps via the
feeding bottle much before coherent thoughts arise. After
that glass fires childish imagination when a Prince finds a
glass slipper belonging to his mysterious dance-partner who
leaves the ball at midnight. As a teenager, the mirror is often
an inseparable companion. A little later in life, the debate
moves to the nature of glass: is it a super- cooled liquid or an
amorphous solid? What makes its structure so interesting
and its properties such an amalgam of opposites?

Primitive man mined Obsidian—a naturally formed
volcanic glass of sorts. The ancients taxed it even as they
created enduring works of art that command astounding
prices at auctions today. Modern humans value glass no less.
To an artist, glass is a perfectly malleable medium; colourful
or colourless; transparent, translucent or opaque as fancy
demands. To a scientist, glass is the perfect medium too;
enabling the creation of spectacles, microscopes, binoculars,
telescopes and cameras. To an architect, glass is the perfect
medium to clad state-of-the art- buildings. The
environmentalist is happy because glass can be recycled
eternally.

Glass is a conglomerate of contrasting characteristics...it
shatters if dropped but can stop bullets. This book explains the
‘hows’ and the ‘whys’ of glass, in an extremely lucid way.
From fantasy to fantastic facts, this book reveals all about
gorgeous glass.

Sukanya Datta is Senior Principal Scientist working with the
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and posted in
Kolkata. She has a doctoral degree from the University of
Calcutta and has been actively involved in the popularisation
of science and science communication for over two decades.
She has served as a Resource Person for All India Radio,
National Book Trust, Publications Division, Vigyan Prasar,
and CSIR-Human Resource Development Centre. She has
authored and co-authored several popular science books,
science fiction short stories and children’s books.