Laboratory Manual of Glass-Blowing

by Francis C. Frary

F. C. F.

Minneapolis, Minn.,
January, 1914.

CONTENTS

	Page
Preface	[v]
CHAPTER I
Materials and Apparatus	[1]
Varieties and defects of glass—Devitrification—Annealing
glass—Blowpipe and bellows—Light—Arrangement
of exercises.
CHAPTER II
General Operations	[7]
Cutting, bending, constricting and flanging the tubing—Methods
of rotation and blowing.
CHAPTER III
Elementary Exercises	[16]
Joining two pieces of tubing of the same diameter—The
"tee" tube—Joining two tubes of different diameters—Blowing
bulbs.
CHAPTER IV
Advanced Exercises	[35]
Sealing a tube through another tube: The gas-washing
tube, suction pump, and Kjeldahl trap.
CHAPTER V
Modified Methods and Special Operations	[43]
Capillary tubing—Glass rod—Mending stopcocks—Closed
circuits of tubing—Spirals—Ground joints—Sealing
in platinum wire—Sealing vacuum tubes—Closed
tubes for heating under pressure.
Index	[59]

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LABORATORY
MANUAL OF GLASS-BLOWING

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CHAPTER I