Laboratory Scientific Glassblowing

A Practical Training Method

This book explains and demonstrates the methods involved in scientific glassblowing. It describes elementary to advanced glass manipulation together with technical information on its safe use and development in the laboratory. Edited by Paul Le Pinnet (MBE), a scientific glassblower with over 50 years' experience in the field, experts in glassblowing are brought together to explain their methods and approaches used to produce a variety of glassware.

Laboratory Scientific Glassblowing is a unique project which updates and develops the traditional art of glassblowing and brings it into the 21st century. New skills and materials are introduced, including descriptions of working with fused silica, on laser profile cutting and on the creation of artistic glassware in a scientific setting. Written specifically as a hands-on reference work, this book can be used as a step-by-step practical guide for practitioners and scientists as well as students and apprentices interested in the field.

Contributions from: Michael Baumbach, MD of H Baumbach & Co; Paul Rathmill, Enterprise Q; William Fludgate, MD BioChem Glass (app) Ltd; Ian Pearson (Past Chairman BSSG), Editor, BSSG Journal; Gary Coyne, California State University USA; Konstantin Kraft-Poggensee, Former chairman, German Scientific Glassblowing Society; Keith Holden President of the Australian and New Zealand Glassblowing Society; Phil Murray, Churchill Fellow.

Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Forward
• Introduction
• 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

Readership: Glassblowers, practitioners and students of scientific glassbowing, and apprentices going into the field.
Key Features:

• This manual has been written by a Scientific Glassblower rather than an academic
• The author has called upon other noted Scientific Glassblowers from around the world to contribute: Gary Coyne (California State University); Keith Holden FBSSG President (New Zealand Scientific Glassblowing Society); William Fludgate (FBSSG Chairman of the British Society of Scientific Glassblowers); Terri Adams FBSSG (University of Oxford); Konstantin Kraft (Master, past Chair of the German Scientific Glassblowing Society); Ian Pearson (FBSSG past Chairman, British Society of Scientific Glass Blowers); Paul Rathmill (Enterprise Q Fused Silica); Michael Baumbach (MD H Baumback & Co Fused Silica); Phil Murray (Churchill Fellow apprenticed to the Author for 7 years)