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The Turner Museum of Glass is housed in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the
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Biography of Turner of the University, who additionally was the senior author on many papers on
List of Papers on Glass Technology One of the exhibits is the wedding dress of his wife Helen Monro Turner (Helen Nairn, married 1 July 1943according to the sign beside the exhibit) which is made of glass fibre, as are the matching shoes. This has been selected as one of the items in the
Glass Fibre Wedding Dress
The Turner Museum of Glass is housed in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield
The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University or TUOS) is a public university, public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Fir ...
, in England. It is in the Sir Robert Hadfield Building with the entrance from Portobello Street. It contains examples from ancient Egypt and Rome but mainly from major European and American glassworkers, with a particular focus on those from the 1920s to 1950s.Museum website/ref> It was founded in 1943 by Professor W. E. S. Turnerwww.scienceandsociety.co.uk
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Biography of Turner of the University, who additionally was the senior author on many papers on
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