The Art of Glass-Blowing

Plain Instruction for the Making of Chemical and Philosophical Instruments Which are Formed of Glass

T.-P. Danger

• Publisher: Perlego
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9700000055266
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Excerpt from The Art of Glass-Blowing, or Plain Instructions for Making the Chemical and Philosophical Instruments Which Are Formed of Glass: Such as Barometers, Thermometers, Hydrometers, Hour-Glasses, Funnels, Syphons, Tube Vessels for Chemical Experiments, Toys for Recreative Philosophy, &C

Many persons would very willingly occupy their leisure time in practising the charming art of working glass and enamels with the blowpipe but the anticipated expense of the apparatus, and the difficulties which they imagine to foresee in the execution Of work of this kind, always repels them.

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