Flameworking/Lampworking

4th ed

Glass technical data -- Basic tools and equipment for scientific glassblowing -- Working environment regulations ; Workshop layout -- Safe glass handling -- Hand techniques -- Hand torch techniques -- Vacuum manifold ; vacuum measurement ; Schlenk lines -- Silvering of glassware -- Packed columns -- Round bottomed flasks ; Various techniques for attaching side arms -- Standards of competence -- Drawing on experience.

British Society of Scientific Glassblowers [printed edition].

British Society of Scientific Glassblowers, Jan 1, 1992, CDRom

Digital copies of 26 books collected by Joseph Imler

This link may provide a pdf on The Wayback Machine: http://wiredfreak.com/.Chemistry eBooks Collection/Laboratory/Glassblowing/Glassblowing for laboratory technicians - Barbour/Glassblowing for laboratory technicians - Barbour.pdf

Contents: History of glass -- Glass and its working characteristics -- Glassblowing equipment -- Basic operations -- Fundamental glassblowing seals -- Practice pieces to make -- Grinding glass -- Glass to metal seals -- Graded seals -- The coating of glass and metal surfaces with a thin film of metal -- Purification of mercury -- Fractional distillation -- High vacuum -- Metal working -- Electrical heaters -- Miscellaneous equipment and procedures.
Essential resource

Notes: Essay on the beginnings of the Italian scientific glassware industry (p. 21-27); maker marks (p. 39-41).

Includes a chapter, "Bottles for the Demons," pp. 60-79, relating to Cartesian divers ("Diavoletto di Cartesio") and the tradition of entrapping demons.