INDEX.
Reading edition
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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