| [CHAPTER I.] |
| GLASS-BLOWER’S APPARATUS. |
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| [Introductory]—[The Working-place]—[TheBlow-pipe]—[TheBellows]—[Automatic Blower]—[Blow-pipe Flames], | [1]-[11] |
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| [CHAPTER II.] |
| VARIETIES OF GLASS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT. |
| [Characters of good Glass]—[Cleaning and Preparing aTube]—[PresentingGlass to the Flame]—[Methods of working withLead and Soft Soda Glass respectively]—[Management of Soda Glass]—[Annealing]—[TheUse of Combustion Tube], | [12]-[25] |
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| [CHAPTER III.] |
| CUTTING AND BENDING GLASS—FORMING GLASS APPARATUSBEFORE THE BLOW-PIPE—MAKING AND GRINDING STOPPERSTO APPARATUS, ETC. |
| [Cutting Glass Tubes]—[Bending Glass Tubes]—[Rounding and Bordering the Ends of Tubes]—[Sealing]—[Choking,or Contracting the Bore of a Glass Tube]—[Widening Tubes]—[PiercingTubes]—[Uniting Pieces of Glass to each other, Known as Welding, or Soldering]—[Blowing a Bulb or Globe of Glass]—[Making and Grinding Stoppers], | [26]-[54] |
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| [CHAPTER IV.] |
| MAKING THISTLE FUNNELS, U-TUBES, ETC.—COMBINING THE PARTSOF COMPLICATED APPARATUS—MERCURY, AND OTHER AIR-TIGHTJOINTS—VACUUM TAPS—SAFETY TAPS—AIR-TRAPS. |
| [Electrodes]—[U-Tubes]—[Spiral Tubes]—[Thistle Funnels]—[Closing Tubes containingChemicals]—[Construction of Apparatus Consisting of Several Parts]—[Modes ofCombining the Parts of Heavy Apparatus]—[Mercury Joints]—[Vacuum Taps]—[Lubricating Taps]—[Air-Traps], | [55]-[69] |
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| [CHAPTER V.] |
| GRADUATING AND CALIBRATING GLASS APPARATUS. |
| [Graduating Tubes, etc.]—[To Divide a Given Line into EqualParts]—[To Calibrate Apparatus]—[To Calibrate Tubes for MeasuringGases]—[To Calibrate the Tube of a Thermometer], | [70]-[81] |
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| [CHAPTER VI.] |
| GLASS TUBING. |
| [Diagrams of Glass Tubes, Showing the Chief Sizes in which Theyare Made], | [82]-[83] |
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| [CHAPTER VII.] |
| VITREOUS SILICA. |
| [Introductory]—[Properties of Vitreous Silica]—[Preparing non-splintering Silica from Brazil Pebble]—[Apparatus]—[The Method of Making Silica Tubes]—[Precautions]—[MakingLarger Tubes and other Apparatus of Silica]—[Quartz Fibres], | [84]-[95] |
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| [Index], | [97] |
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