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On Laboratory Arts

by Richard Threlfall

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Chapter I Hints on the Manipulation of Glass and on Glass-Blowing for Laboratory Purposes **

§ 4. Soft Soda Glass, *

§ 6. Flint Glass. — *

§ 9. Hard or Bohemian, Glass. — *

§ 10. On the Choice of Sizes of Glass Tube. — *

§ 11. Testing Glass. — *

§ 13. Cleaning Glass Tubes. — *

§ 14. The Blow-pipe. — *

§ 18. The Table. — *

§ 19. Special Operations. — *

§ 20. Closing and blowing out the End of a Tube. — *

§ 21. To make a Weld. — *

§ 22. To weld two Tubes of different Sizes. — *

§ 24. To weld Tubes of very small Bore. — *

§ 30. To cut very thick Tubes. *

§ 31. To blow a Bulb at the End of a Tube. — *

§ 32. To blow a bulb in the middle of a tube, *

§ 33. To make a side Weld. — *

§ 34. Inserted Joints. — *

§ 35. Bending Tubes. — *

§ 36. Spiral Tubes. — *

§ 37. On Auxiliary Operations on Glass:- *

§ 38. Boring small Holes. — *

§ 39. For boring large holes through thick glass sheets, *

§ 41. Operations depending on Grinding: Ground-in Joints. — *

§ 42. Use of the Lathe in Glass-working. — *

§ 46. Making Ground Glass. — *

§ 47. Glass-cutting. — *

§ 48. Cementing. — *

§ 49. Fusing Electrodes into Glass. — *

§ 51. The Art of making Air-tight Joints. — *

APPENDIX TO CHAPTER I *

ON THE PREPARATION OF VACUUM TUBES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PROFESSOR ROENTGEN’S RADIATION *

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