A handbook of laboratory glass-blowing

Bernard Dell Bolas and Naomi Bolas

A glass tube softens in the flame, and with a single breath it becomes a flask, a joint, a bend to exact size. Bolas teaches the laboratory craft chapter by chapter, with diagrams for every fundamental technique. This is the skill that once built a chemist's own apparatus from raw tubing. Light the burner and learn to shape glass to your will.