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...evident interest of your readers in ultraviolet light and heliotherapy leads us to inform you that actinic glass which transmits this radiation is already available on a commercial scale...
...very much interested in your article [TIME, Oct. 18] concerning the experiments using ultraviolet transmitting glass conducted in English public schools. The laboratories of Corning Glass Works have recently announced the development of a glass of this type possessing qualities of ultraviolet transmission comparing favorably with fused quartz...
Other subscribers interested in ultraviolet glass may consult SCIENCE, this number...
...report that school authorities in smoke-hung Birmingham, Eng., had investigated the hygienic qualities of window glass constructed to permit the passage of the ultraviolet rays of sunlight and found this glass so far superior to common panes that they had ordered it installed in all Birmingham schools (TIME, Oct. 18), had prime interest for U. S.* glass manufacturers. The Corning Glass Works (Corning, N. Y.), family company of U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Alanson B. Houghton, swiftly called attention (see LETTERS) to its recent perfection of a glass, soon to be produced commercially, which transmits 86% of sunlight...
...perfect transmitter for ultraviolet rays was found by science in fused quartz glass. But fused quartz is too expensive to put in school windows for little boys to knock baseballs through. The new Corning glass, two millimeters thick, is virtually as stable as standard window glass and only slightly more costly...