Experimental glass blowing for boys
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CARLETON J. LYNDE, Ph. D.
Professor of Physics
MacDonald College, Quebec Province, Canada
Prepared under the direction of
ALFRED C. GILBERT
Yale University, 1909
Boys, glass tubes are made in the sizes shown in Fig. 2, and in larger sizes. You will use sizes 2, 4, and 6 in the following experiments .
FIG. 2 SIZES OF GLASS TUBING
Hold a piece of No. 2, with both hands, in the flame of the alcohol lamp, and turn it constantly (Fig. 3). Do you find that when the glass becomes nearly red hot, it becomes soft and bends easily?
FIG. 3 HEATING GLASS TO SOFTEN IT
Carleton John Lynde
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EXPERIMENTAL GLASS BLOWING
Experiment 1. Fun bending glass.
Experiment 2. To cut glass tubing.
Experiment 3. To make the edges smooth.
Experiment 4. Practice with the blowpipe.
Experiment 5. To close the end of a small tube.
Experiment 6. Fun blowing glass bubbles.
Experiment 7. To make water balloons.
Experiment 8. Magic.
Experiment 9. Balloon races.
Experiment 10. Fun with thin tubes.
Experiment 11. Magic.
Experiment 12. To make an acrobatic pollywog.
Experiment 13. Magic.
Experiment 14. A dancing pollywog.
Experiment 15. To make glass spider-web.
Experiment 16. The ancient spider trick.
Experiment 17. To make working handles.
Experiment 18. To close a large tube.
Experiment 19. To make a submarine.
Experiment 20. Magic.
Experiment 21. Fun with the submarine.
Experiment 22. A submarine battle.
Experiment 23. To flare the end of a tube.
Experiment 24. To make an air gun.
Experiment 25. A shooting match.
Experiment 26. Height and distance contest.
Experiment 27. To make a pea shooter.
Experiment 28. A pea-shooting match.
Experiment 29. To make a good bend.
Experiment 30. To make a drinking tube.
Experiment 31. To make a siphon.
Experiment 32. Magic.
Experiment 33. A long-armed siphon.
Experiment 34. To make a nozzle.
Experiment 35. To make a fountain.
Experiment 36. Magic.
Experiment 37. More magic.
Experiment 38. Still more magic.
Experiment 39. To start a siphon.
Experiment 40. To siphon sand or mud.
Experiment 41. To make a squirt bottle.
Experiment 42. To make a trick squirt bottle.
Experiment 43. Fun with a trick squirt bottle.
Experiment 44. To make an engineer’s level.
Experiment 45. To use the engineer’s level.
Experiment 46. To make a spirit level.
Experiment 47. To make a fountain-pen filler.
Experiment 48. To make a syringe.
Experiment 49. To make another syringe.
Experiment 50. To make a third syringe.
Experiment 51. To make a diablo whistle.
Experiment 52. Fun with the diablo whistle.
Experiment 53. To join two tubes end to end.
Experiment 54. To join tubes of different sizes.
Experiment 55. To make a large hole.
Experiment 56. To make a tee.
Experiment 57. A three-armed siphon.
Experiment 58. To make a repeating air gun.
Experiment 59. To make a four-way junction.
Experiment 60. A four-arm siphon.
Experiment 61. To make a Y.
Experiment 62. Balancing columns.
Experiment 63. Unequal columns.
Experiment 64. To fuse wire into glass.
Experiment 65. To cut window glass.
Experiment 66. To bore a hole in glass.
Experiment 67. To cut a bottle in two.
Experiment 68. To grind glass.
Experiment 69. To cement glass.
Experiment 70. Magic lighting.
Experiment 71. Air used by flames.
Experiment 72. Water produced by fire.
Experiment 73. Atmospheric pressure.
Experiment 74. Great pressure of air.
Experiment 75. A fountain.
Experiment 76. Magic tumbler.
Experiment 77. Magic lift.
Experiment 78. A magic pendulum.
Experiment 79. A poultry fountain.
Experiment 80. A drinking fountain.
