Publisher's Synopsis
Materials And Apparatus - Varieties And Defects Of Glass - Devitrification - Annealing Glass - Blowpipe And Bellows - Light - Arrangement Of Exercises - General Operations - Cutting - Bending - Constricting And Flanging Tubing - Methods Of Rotation And Blowing - Elementary Exercises - Joining Two Pieces Of Tubing Of The Same Diameters - Blowing Bulbs - Advanced Exercises - Sealing A Tube Through Another Tube: The Gas Washing Tube - Suction Pump - And Kjeldahl Trap - Modified Methods And Special Operations - 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 - And Sixty Recipes For Flint Glass Making, With Index
