A Handbook of Laboratory

Glass-Blowing

Book on CD

By: Bernard D. Bolas

With Numerous Diagrams in the Text by Naomi Bolas

©1921 – 106 pages

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Contents

• I. Introduction and Preliminary Remarks - General Principles to be observed in Glass Working - Choice of Apparatus Tools and Appliances - Glass

• II. Easy Examples of Laboratory Glass -Blowing - Cutting and Sealing Tubes, - Tubes for High Temperature Experiments - Thermometer-Bulbs - Bulbs of Special Glass, Pipettes, Absorption - Bulbs or Washing Bulbs - Joining Tubes, Branches, Exhaustion-Branches, Branches of Dissimilar Glass, Blowing Bulbs, A Thistle Funnel, Cracking and Breaking Glass, Leading and Direction of Cracks Use of Glass Rod or Strips of Window-Glass, Joining Rod, Feet and Supports - Gripping Devices for use in Corrosive Solutions - The Building up of Special Forms from Solid Glass

• III. Internal Seals, Air-Traps, Spray Arresters, Filter- Pumps - Sprays, Condensers ; plain, double surface, and spherical - Soxhlet Tubes and Fat Extraction Apparatus - Vacuum Tubes, Electrode Work, Enclosed Thermometers, Alarm Thermometers . . . Recording Thermometers, "Spinning" Glass

• IV. Glass, its Composition and Characteristics - Annealing Drilling, Grinding, and Shaping Glass by methods other than Fusion - Stop -cocks - Marking Glass Calibration and Graduation of Apparatus - Thermometers - Exhaustion of Apparatus - Joining Glass and Metal - Silvering Glass

• V. Extemporised Glass-Blowing Apparatus - The use of Oil or other Fuels - Making Small Rods and Tubes from Glass Scraps - The Examination of Manufactured Apparatus with a view to Discovering the Methods used in Manufacture - Summary of Conditions necessary for Successful Glass-Blowing

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