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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
With all its advantages, the division of labour, so much accentuated in modern times, tends to carry with it a regrettable division of information. Much that is familiar to theorists and experimenters in laboratories percolates slowly into the workshop, and, what is more to my present purpose, much practical knowledge gained in the workshop fails to find its way into print. At the moment I am desirous of further information on two matters relating to the working of glass in which I happen to be interested, and I am writing in the hope that some of your readers may be able to assist.
Almost the only discussion that I have seen of the cutting of glass by the diamond is a century old, by the celebrated W. H. Wollaston (Phil. Trans. 1816, p. 265).
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