| This is the first Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Mfmorial Lfcture delivered by the
author on Octobn 6, 1961, before the National Institute of Sciences, Indt'a. The
author has gil!fn a thoughtful account of the' devt'lopmfnt of the optical glass
industry and in this he discovers the fundamental prerequishe for industrial progre.u
namely, the close co-ordination amon.t; scientific thoughts, technolOJ[ical actions and
industrial growth. ·This happened Łn different countries in the past,. happened
again in Indz'a in producing optical .t;lass, and is the ri,t;ht step towards our technological
independence.
In view of the special .app.eal of the lfcture to the workers in the fields of glass
.and ceramics, it' is being reproducfd here from the Proceedings of the National
Institute of Sciences of India [ 27 A (6) I96I], with the permissi'On of the Institute. |
