Glass databases
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Since the beginning of scientific glass research in the 19th century thousands of glass property-composition datasets were published in the scientific literature, in patents, and other sources. The first attempt to summarize all those data systematically was the publication of the monograph "Glastechnische Tabellen" (engl.: Glass Technical Tables) by W. Eitel, M. Pirani, and K. Scheel in 1932 in Germany (Springer Verlag, Berlin). World War II and the Cold War prevented similar efforts for several decades afterwards. In 1991 the Japanese database INTERGLAD was created, followed by the publication of the "Handbook of Glass Data", edited by O. V. Mazurin, M. V. Streltsina, and T. P. Shvaiko-Shvaikovskaya (Elsevier, 1993). The "Handbook of Glass Data" was later digitalized and substantially expanded under the name SciGlass. Currently, SciGlass contains properties of more than 286,000 glass compositions, and INTERGLAD about 250,000.
Glass databases facilitate systematic glass development and research tremendously.
