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On Laboratory Arts

by Richard Threlfall

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  1. 1Chapter I — Hints on the Manipulation of Glass and on Glass-Blowing…
  2. 2Chapter II — Glass-Grinding and Opticians’ Work *
  3. 3Chapter III — Miscellaneous Processes *
  4. 4Chapter IV — Electroplating and Allied Arts *
  5. 5Preface
  6. 6Chapter I — Hints on the Manipulation of Glass and on Glass-Blowing…
  7. 7§ 4 — Soft Soda Glass
  8. 8§ 6 — Flint Glass
  9. 9§ 9 — Hard or Bohemian, Glass
  10. 10§ 11 — Testing Glass
  11. 11§ 13 — Cleaning Glass Tubes
  12. 12§ 14 — The Blow-pipe
  13. 13§ 19 — Special Operations
  14. 14§ 21 — To Make a Weld
  15. 15§ 22 — To Weld Two Tubes of Different Sizes
  16. 16§ 24 — To Weld Tubes of Very Small Bore
  17. 17§ 30 — To Cut Very Thick Tubes
  18. 18§ 33 — To Make a Side Weld
  19. 19§ 34 — Inserted Joints
  20. 20§ 35 — Bending Tubes
  21. 21§ 36 — Spiral Tubes
  22. 22§ 37 — On Auxiliary Operations on Glass
  23. 23§ 38 — Boring Small Holes
  24. 24§ 41 — Operations Depending on Grinding: Ground-in Joints
  25. 25§ 42 — Use of the Lathe in Glass-working
  26. 26§ 46 — Making Ground Glass
  27. 27§ 47 — Glass-cutting
  28. 28§ 49 — Fusing Electrodes Into Glass
  29. 29§ 51 — The Art of Making Air-light Joints
  30. 30Appendix to Chapter I on the Preparation of Vacuum Tubes for the Pr…
  31. 31Chapter II — Glass-Grinding and Opticians’ Work
  32. 32§ 61 — Details of the Process of Fine Grinding
  33. 33§ 65 — Preparing Small Mirrors for Galvanometers
  34. 34§ 70 — Casting Specula for Mirrors
  35. 35§ 71 — Grinding and Polishing Specula
  36. 36§ 72 — Preparation of Flat Surfaces
  37. 37Chapter III — Miscellaneous Processes
  38. 38§ 75 — The Use of the Diamond-cutting Wheel
  39. 39§ 76 — Arming a Wheel
  40. 40§ 77 — Cutting a Section
  41. 41§ 79 — Cutting Sections of Soft Substances
  42. 42§ 80 — On the Production of Quartz Threads’
  43. 43§ 84 — Drawing Quartz Threads
  44. 44§ 86 — Drawing Threads by the Catapult
  45. 45§ 87 — Drawing Threads by the Flame Alone
  46. 46§ 88 — Properties of Threads
  47. 47§ 90 — On the Attachment of Quartz Fibres
  48. 48§ 91 — Other Modes of Soldering Quartz
  49. 49§ 92 — Soldering
  50. 50§ 94 — Preparing a Soldering Bit
  51. 51§ 95 — Soft Soldering
  52. 52§ 97 — Soldering Zinc
  53. 53§ 98 — Soldering Other Metals
  54. 54§ 100 — Silver Soldering
  55. 55§ 102 — Sulphur
  56. 56§ 105 — Ebonite or Hard Rubber
  57. 57§ 107 — Use of Mica in Condensers
  58. 58§ 111 — Paraffined Paper
  59. 59§ 113 — Vaseline, Vaseline Oil, and Kerosene Oil
  60. 60§ 114 — Imperfect Conductors
  61. 61§ 119 — Platinum Silver
  62. 62§ 120 — Platinum Iridium
  63. 63§ 124 — Patent Nickel
  64. 64Chapter IV — Electroplating and Allied Arts
  65. 65§ 128 — The Dipping Bath
  66. 66§ 130 — Scratch-brushing
  67. 67§ 131 — Burnishing
  68. 68§ 132 — Silver-plating
  69. 69§ 133 — Cold Silvering
  70. 70§ 135 — Preparing Surfaces for Gilding
  71. 71§ 136 — Gilding Solutions
  72. 72§ 137 — Plating With Copper
  73. 73§ 138 — Coppering Aluminium
  74. 74§ 140 — Alkaline Coppering Solution
  75. 75§ 141 — Nickel-plating
  76. 76§ 143 — Blacking Brass Surfaces
  77. 77§ 145 — Pottery Making in the Laboratory
  78. 78Appendix

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