INDEX.

Air-traps,[69].
Annealing,[23].
Apparatus needed for Glass-working,[11].
Appendix,[82].
Beginners, Failures of,[22].
Bellows, Position of,[3].
—— Various forms of,[7]. See also [Blower].
Bending Glass Tubes,[28].
Blower, Automatic,[8].
Blow-pipe, Cheap form of,[4].
—— Dimensions of,[4]-[5].
—— Fletcher’s Automaton,[6].
—— Fletcher’s Compound,[6].
—— Gimmingham’s,[6].
—— Herapath’s,[6].
—— Jets for the,[7].
—— Use of the,[8]. See also [Flames].
Blow-pipes, Use of several in combination,[21].
Brush Flame,[9].
—— Oxidising,[20].
Bulbs, Methods of blowing,[47].
Calibrating Apparatus,[76]-[81].
Camphorated Turpentine,[11].
Cetti’s Vacuum Tap,[66].
Charcoal Pastils,[11].
Choking or Contracting the Bores of Tubes,[35].
Combining the Parts of Complicated Apparatus,[61].
Combustion Tube, how to work it,[25].
Contracting the Bore of a Tube,[35].
Cotton Wool for Annealing,[24].
Cutting Glass Tubes,[26], [27], [28].
Dividing a Line into Equal Parts,[75].
Electrodes,[38], [55].
Electrolysis, Making Apparatus for,[59].
Files for Cutting Glass,[27].
Flame, the Pointed,[8].
—— the Brush,[9].
—— the Oxidising Brush,[20].
—— the Smoky,[10].
Fletcher’s Automaton Blow-pipe,[6].
Fletcher’s Compound Blow-pipe,[6].
Funnels, Thistle-headed,[57].
Gimmingham’s Blow-pipe,[6].
Gimmingham’s Vacuum Tap,[68].
Glass, Annealing,[23].
—— Devitrification of,[15].
—— Method of Working with Lead,[17].
—— Method of Working with Soda,[22].
—— Nature of,[12].
—— Presenting to the Flame,[16].
Glass Tubes, Bending,[28].
—— Bordering,[31].
—— Characters of good,[14].
—— Choking,[35].
—— Cleaning,[15].
—— Cutting,[26], [27], [28].
—— Piercing,[37].
—— Purchase of,[12].
—— Sealing,[32].
—— Sealing Hermetically,[58].
—— Sizes of,[82].
—— Welding or Soldering,[39], [62].
—— Widening the Ends of,[36].
Graduating Apparatus,[70].
Grinding Stoppers,[51].
Herapath’s Blow-pipe,[6].
Hofman’s Apparatus for Electrolysis,[59].
Inside Joints,[43].
Jets for Blow-pipes,[7].
Joints, Air-tight,[64].
Lead Glass, Method of Working with,[17].
Lead Glass, Blackening of,[17].
Light, Effect of, in Working,[3].
Line, to Divide into Equal Parts,[75].
Mercury Joints, Various,[64].
Non-splintering Silica, Preparation of, from Quartz,[88].
Ozone Generator, To Make an,[44].
Pastils of Charcoal,[11].
Piercing Tubes, etc.,[37].
Platinum Electrodes, Sealing in,[38], [55].
Pointed Flame, the,[9].
Quartz Fibres,[94].
Rounding Ends of Tubes,[31].
Sealing or Closing Openings in Tubes,[32].
Side-tubes, Fixing,[41].
Smoky Flame,[10].
Soda Glass, Method of Working,[22].
Soldering or Welding,[39], [62].
Spiral Tubes,[56].
Stoppers, Making and Grinding,[51].
Table for Glass-blower,[3].
Taps, Vacuum,[65].
Thistle-headed Funnels,[57].
Traps, Air,[69].
Tube, Combustion, how to work it,[25].
Tubes. See [Glass Tubes].
—— T-,[41].
—— U-,[56].
Turpentine, Camphorated, for Grinding,[11].
U-Tubes,[56].
Vacuum Taps,[65]-[68].
—— Tube, To Make a,[60].
Vitreous Silica, Apparatus required for Making,[89].
—— Behaviour under sudden changes of Temperature,[87].
—— Bulbs, etc., Making Joints on,[93].
—— Expansion of,[86].
—— Hardness of,[85].
—— Insulating Power of,[85].
—— Melting Point of,[85].
—— Permeability to Gases,[87].
—— Properties of,[84].
—— Rods, Making Joints on,[94].
—— Tubes, Method of Making,[90].
—— Tubes, Making Joints on,[94].
Welding or Soldering Tubes together,[39], [62].
White Enamel, Uses of,[39], [56].
Widening the Ends of Tubes,[36].
Working-place,[2].

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