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Title: Laboratory Manual of Glass-Blowing

Author: Francis C. Frary

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LABORATORY MANUAL

OF

GLASS-BLOWING

McGraw-Hill Book Company

_Publishers of Books for_

Electrical World
Engineering Record
Railway Age Gazette
Signal Engineer
Electric Railway Journal
Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering
The Engineering and Mining Journal
Engineering News
American Machinist
American Engineer
Coal Age
Power

LABORATORY MANUAL
OF
GLASS-BLOWING

BY
FRANCIS C. FRARY, PH. D.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC.
239 WEST 39TH STREET, NEW YORK
6 BOUVERIE STREET, LONDON, E. C.

1914

COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY THE
McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC.

PREFACE

The purpose of this little book is to provide a clear and detailed
discussion of the elements of glass-blowing. Many laboratories in this
country, especially in the west, are located a long way from any
professional glass-blower, and the time and money spent in shipping
broken apparatus several hundred miles to be mended could often be saved
if some of the laboratory force could seal on a new stopcock, replace a
broken tube, or make some temporary repairs. Many men in physical or
chemical laboratories have occasion to modify some piece of apparatus
designed perhaps for other uses, or to design new apparatus. To such
also, the ability to perform some of the operations herein described may
be very valuable.

No originality is claimed for the methods here described. They are those
which the author has found most suitable and convenient in his own work,
and most easily learned by students. The aim has