| No. |
Date |
Title, Invited Speaker and Reference |
| 1st |
9 November 1966 |
"W E S Turner - Applied Scientist"
Professor R W Douglas
Professor of Glass Technology, University of Sheffield
Glass Technology 1967 8 (1), 19-28 |
| 2nd |
17 February 1969 |
"Technology and Society"
J Herbert Holloman
President of the University of Oklahoma
Glass Technology 1969 10 (1), 164-170 |
| 3rd |
25 February 1971 |
"Float - an Application of Science, Analysis and Judgement"
Sir Alastair Pilkington FRS |
| 4th |
6 March 1975 |
"The Politics of Noxious Vapours"
The Rt. Hon. Lord Ashby FRS
Glass Technology 1975 16 (3), 60-67 |
| 5th |
10 November 1976 |
"Glass Technology - The Challenge of Change"
Mr V C Hender
Group Managing Director, United Glass
Glass Technology 1977 18 (2), 35-42 |
| 6th |
7 June 1979 |
"Our Forefathers in Glass"
Mr R J Charleston
Former Keeper, Dept. of Ceramics, Victoria and Albert Museum
Glass Technology 1980 21 (1), 27-36 |
| 7th |
20 May 1982 |
"Glass - Key Material in Advancing Solar Energy Applications"
Professor J K Page
Department of Building Science, University of Sheffield |
| 8th |
26 November 1984 |
"W E S Turner - Recollections and Developments"
Professor R G Newton
Honorary Professor, Department of Ceramics, Glasses and Polymers, University of SheffieldGlass Technology 1985 26 (2), 93-103 |
| 9th |
15 May 1986 |
"Glass, Light and the Information Revolution"
Professor A Gambling
British Telecommunications Professor of Optical Communication, University of Southampton
Glass Technology 1986 27 (6), 179-187 |
| 10th |
5 May 1988 |
"A Policy for the Funding of Science in the UK"
Professor E W J Mitchell
Chairman, Science and Engineering Research Council
Glass Technology 1989 30 (2), 67-71 |
| 11th |
6 May 1993 |
"The Emergence and Domination of the Venetian Glass Industry in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance"
Hugh Tait FSA
Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British Museum |
| 12th |
11June 1996 |
"The Future of Glass Research"
Professor John D Mackenzie
Nippon Sheet Glass Professor of Materials Science and Associate Dean of Engineering, UCLA
Glass Technology 1996 37 (6), 181-184 |
| 13th |
30 September 1999 |
"Ancient Glass and Modern Science - building on the legacy of WES Turner"
Dr I C Freestone
Deputy Keeper at The British Museum |
| 14th |
20 September 2001 |
"Glass and Genes"
Professor L L Hench
Professor of Ceramic Materials at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London |
| 15th |
7 May 2003 |
"TV is Dead - Long Live the Web"
Professor Sir Harry Kroto
Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sussex |
| 16th |
8 September 2005 |
"Cut and Engraved Glass in the Islamic World Between the 8th and 11th Centuries"
Dr D Whitehouse
Executive Director and Curator of Ancient and Islamic Glass
Corning Museum of Glass
New York |
| 17th |
10 May 2007 |
"The Development of Glass-Melting Furnaces and South Yorkshire's Pioneering Role"
Prof Michael Cable
Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield |